A minor revolution : how prioritizing kids benefits us all / Adam Benforado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benforado, Adam, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's rights--United States.

Children's rights.

Child abuse--United States.

Child abuse.

Child welfare--United States.

Child welfare.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxix, 329 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

How prioritizing kids benefits us all

Place of Publication:

New York : Crown, [2023]

Summary:

"At the dawn of the twentieth century, a bright new age for children appeared on the horizon, with progress on ending child labor, providing public education, ensuring food and drug safety, combating abuse and neglect, and creating a juvenile justice system. But a hundred years on, the promised light has not arrived. Today, more than eleven million American children live in poverty and more than four million lack health insurance. Each year, we prosecute tens of thousands of kids as adults, while our schools crumble. We deny young people any political power, while we forgo meaningful action on the issues that matter most to them: gun violence, racism, inequality, and climate change. With compelling real-life stories, law professor Adam Benforado fashions a vivid and intimate portrait of what's at stake. We are there when three-year-old Ariel is placed in an orphanage after her parents are locked away for transporting marijuana; when thirteen-year-old Harold first gazes in disbelief upon the immaculate green lawn of an elite private school, after a childhood of rusted chain link and asphalt play yards; when seventeen-year-old Wylie is hit with a paddle by his public-school principal as punishment for taking a moment of silence to protest gun violence. The root cause of nearly every major challenge we face-from crime to poor health to poverty-can be found in our mistreatment of children. And we all pay the cost when we ignore the evidence on the value of early intervention, investment, and empowerment. But in that sobering truth is also the key to effectively changing our fate as a nation. Drawing on the latest scientific research into the remarkable capabilities and crucial needs of young people, A Minor Revolution offers a bold vision for the future. We must put children first, in our budgets and policies, in developing products and enacting laws, in our families and communities. Childhood is the window of opportunity for all of us"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The First Years: The Right to Attachment

Early Childhood: The Right to Investment

Late Childhood: The Right to Community

Early Adolescence: The Right to Be a Kid

Late Adolescence: The Right to Be Heard

On the Cusp of Adulthood: The Right to Start Fresh

The Invisible Kid: What Holds Us Back

Stop and Give a Thought: What Change Looks Like.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-320) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version:

Benforado, Adam. Minor revolution

Online version: Benforado, Adam. Minor revolution

ISBN:

9781984823045

1984823043

OCLC:

1337944852