A Promising Approach: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as an Instrument to Combat Child Poverty in the United States

Thesis advisor: M. Brinton Lykes === Most recent figures indicate that approximately one in five children in the United States is poor (Children’s Defense Fund, 2010; Moore et al., 2009). Thus, the United States ranks considerably below other Northern Hemisphere nations in indices of both child pove...

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Main Author: Cardamone, Nicole
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Boston College 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2345/2015