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Download full textFriesen, Barbara J. – 1989
This paper presents findings of a 1987-1988 survey of 966 parents of children with serious emotional disturbances. The questionnaire addressed issues concerned with seeking and receiving information and services, sources of formal and informal support, and perceptions of the effect of their child's disability on family life. Among specific issues…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Disturbances, Family Environment
Finlay, Belva, Ed. – 1996
The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) 1996 report on the state of America's children highlights the critical need for renewed commitment to children by early childhood advocates, parents, and all sectors of society. The introduction describes in general the crises faced by children and calls for adults to recommit their energies to providing solutions…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Development, Child Health
Won, Sandra, Ed. – 2000
This report on the well-being of America's children focuses on the need for commitment to children by all sectors of society. The report's foreword describes the current situation for poor children in America, compares U.S. policies to those of other industrialized countries, presents the Action Agenda to Leave No Child Behind for 2000-2001, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Advocacy
Children's Defense Fund, Washington, DC. – 1999
This report on the well-being of America's children highlights the critical need for renewed commitment to children by all sectors of society. The introduction describes health and educational outcomes for poor children and maintains that preparing all of the nation's children for the future and protecting them in the present is the greatest human…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Advocacy
