Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : prospects for children's well-being / Mary A. Jensen
  • Entitlement in early care and education : a tale of two rights / Sharon L. Kagan
  • Children's welfare rights are entitlements / Colin A. Wringe
  • The concept of entitlement and its incompatibility with American legal culture / Gary B. Melton and Megan Sullivan
  • Well-being, entitlements, and investment in children : an economic perspective / Robert Haveman and Barbara Wolfe
  • Children's rights in a civilized society / Stuart N. Hart
  • Equal opportunity for infants and young children : myth or reality? / Stanley I. Greenspan
  • The other childhood : the classroom worlds of poor children / Valerie Polakow
  • Health care entitlements for children : providing health services as if children really mattered / Neal Halfon and Gale Berkowitz.
  • The dilemma of rural American communities and their children / Gordon Hoke
  • Creating a political climate that values and supports children / Cheryl D. Hayes
  • Supporting families in their creation of contexts for child rearing / Bernice Weissbourd
  • Building villages : lessons from policy entrepreneurs / Heather B. Weiss
  • Epilogue : beyond visions of entitlement : some personal reflections / Stacie G. Goffin.