Table of Contents

Part one Social conditions; Chapter 1 The social and economic cost of transition; Chapter 2 Child health; Chapter 3 Environment; Chapter 4 Nutrition; Chapter 5 Education; Part two Child protection; Chapter 6 Children on the front line: Child refugees and victims of war; Chapter 7 Child neglect, abuse, and exploitation; Chapter 8 Child labor; Chapter 9 Juvenile crime; Part three Different faces of the transition; Chapter 10 Children in the republics of former Yugoslavia; Chapter 11 Central Europe; Chapter 12 Children of the Baltic countries; Chapter 13 Southeastern Europe; Chapter 14 Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine; Chapter 15 The Caucasus countries; Chapter 16 The Central Asian republics and Kazakhstan; Chapter 17 The Aral Sea disaster zone; Chapter 18 Minority groups;

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Unicef, ; Zouev, Alexander

Reviews

Of course we think about starving children, but to what extent? UNICEF has prepared a well-documented work focusing on the children of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This is not a book about starving children but about the social, political, and economic upheaval that has drastically affected the lives of 150 million young people. For instance, in six years the male teen suicide rate in Russia increased more than 18 percent, while in Belarus adolescent crimes rose 100 percent between 1989 and 1994. Why? During that time 12,000 children were orphaned or abandoned in that country alone. Chapter after chapter deals with statistics and analysis prepared by experts in their fields. It is often difficult to absorb the eye-opening material and the implication that these children may well be beyond jeopardyÄthey may already be lost. Essential reading for those interested in history, children, social programs, politics, and the future.ÄSandra Isaacson, U.S. EPA Region VII Lib., Kansas City