Highlights
- •Many children in the United States lack access to services and care needed to improve the quality of their lives and their future adult potential; typically, these are children of color or who live in poor families.
- •Despite its wide use, a rights-based approach has limitations in advancing the well-being of children, pointing to the need for alternative framing strategies.
- •Other framing strategies, including the lifespan approach, mutualism between parent and child, cost-benefit analyses, and a capabilities approach, could augment or replace rights-based arguments for advancing children's well-being.
- •Recent education and child health policies protect some groups of children more than others and fail to ensure that all children have access to needed services, thereby contributing to inadequate outcomes.
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