Children in North America Project

Yesterday, I received my copy of “Growing up in North America: Child Well-Being in Canada, the United States, and Mexico.” This project is the product of a tri-national team of collaborators from the Annie E. Casey Foundation in the United States, the Canadian Council on Social Development, and Red por los Derechos de la Infancia en Mexico (The Children’s Rights Network in Mexico).

The authors write:

“There are roughly 120 million children in North America — 73 million in the United States, more than 39 million in Mexico, and about 7 million in Canada. They account for over one-quarter of the 426 million people who live on this continent.

If they were any other group, they would be a powerful political force….

But because children don’t have access to political influence, they must rely on adults to listen to them, to encourage and support their participation in issues that affect them, to advocate for them, and to act in their best interests by passing laws to protect them and by putting policies and programs in place to help them reach their full potential.” (page 2)

To learn more about the Children in North America Project and the findings contained in the report, visit www.childreninnorthamerica.org.

Contributed by Laurie McNelles – Mothercraft Institute for Early Development

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