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