Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

ARLENE BOWERS ANDREWS is Director of the Division of Family Policy at the University of South Carolina Institute for Families in Society and Associate Professor of Social Work.NATALIE HEVENER KAUFMAN is Professor of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina and Director of the Office of Families and Democracy at the USC Institute for Families in Society.

• The Child's Right to a Standard of Living Adequate for Development Foreword by Gary B. Melton Preface Foundation Securing Adequate Living Conditions for Each Child's Development by Arlene Bowers Andrews Drafting and Interpreting Article 27 by Natalie Hevener Kaufman and Maria Blanco The International Effort to Measure and Monitor the State of Children by Asher Ben-Arieh The Meaning of Child's Standard of Living by Jens Qvortrup The Relationship Between Standard of Living and Specific Developmental Domains The Relationship Between Standard of Living and Physical Development by Francis Rushton and Robert Greenberg An Adequate Standard of Living for Children's Cognitive (Mental) Development by Patricia Y. Hashima and Susan P. Limber The Meaning of a Standard of Living Adequate for Moral and Civic Development by Judith Torney-Purta The Social Development of the Child by Malfrid Grude Flekkoy and Natalie Hevener Kaufman Community Context Significance of Community Wealth for Child Development: Assumptions and Issues by Frank Barry Community Obligations and the Categorization of Children by Leroy Pelton The Application of Human Capital Theory to Article 27 by Allen M. Parkman Implementing Article 27 in Various Contexts A Cross-Cultural Examination of Article 27 of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child by Virginia Murphy-Berman Entitlement to "Adequacy": Application of Article 27 to U.S. Law by Robin Kimbrough The Application of Article 27 in the Czech Republic: Implications for Countries in Transition by Juri Kovarik Twenty-Six Steps to Article 27: The Example of African American Children in South Carolina by Barbara Morrison-Rodriguez Confronting the Implementation Challenge by Arlene Bowers Andrews and Natalie Hevener Kaufman Appendix Index