"Parents take pride in their children. They are delighted to see another daughter or son enter the world. They are proud to witness the infant taking his or her first faltering steps, and they feel a mixture of pleasure and apprehension as the child leaves for the first day of school. Family stories tend to be tales of sons and daughters. When old friends meet and exchange family news, one of the first questions is, How are the children?"
— Children and the Millennium Development Goals: Progress toward a World Fit for Children. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the Untied Nations. Copyright United Nations Children's Fund, December 2007, p. 1.
How are the children? Find out more about how the children are, both in our nation and in our world from the following:
UNICEF
Visit this site for information about the status of children around the world, including the following resources:
Children and the Millennium Development Goals: Progress toward a World Fit for Children. Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the Untied Nations. Copyright United Nations Children's Fund, December 2007
A follow-up report on progress toward meeting the Millennium Goals.
ISBN13: 9789280642193, Sales Number: 08.XX.7 96 page(s), 8.5x11 Paperback. $15.00.
Order printed version or download from UNICEF.
State of the World's Children 2008: Child Survival
Copyright United Nations Children's Fund, December 2007.
ISBN #:978-92-806-4191-2, Sales no. E. 08.XX.1. $15.00.
Order printed version, or download from UNICEF.
Children's Defense Fund
Find out information about the status of children in the United States.
Girls Count: A Global Investment and Action Agenda
by Ruth Levine, Cynthia Lloyd, Margaret Greene and Caren Grown.
Center for Global Development.
This report is about why and how to put girls at the center of development and about how the health of economies and families depends on protecting the rights of and fostering opportunities for today’s girls. It is about how far girls in many developing countries have come — but how far we remain from a world in which girls’ rights are respected. Download the report. 
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