The goal of this paper is to support that effort by offering a somewhat ???new??? concept of children???s well-being and its relevance to measuring and monitoring young children???s lives. This is followed by a focus on recent shifts and trends in the field, before presenting the history and development of child well-being indicators, drawn from an extensive literature review of nearly 200 ???state of the child??? reports worldwide published between 1950 and 2005. (Description from source).
