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Opinion: 21st Century Childhood - In an ideal world
By Manny Lewis,
Nursery World,
9 August 2007
Our society's obligations to young children today are spelled out by Manny Lewis.
What is it like being a child today? What is happening to childhood? Clearly, the playing field of childhood has never been a level one, but I fear that childhood in the 21st century is becoming increasingly vulnerable and believe that everyone has a part to play in redressing the balance. The media alerts us not just to the sufferings caused by war, poverty and climate change in some communities in the underdeveloped world. It also highlights the deteriorating well-being of children in our own developed world....
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