Foreword / Gary B. Melton --

Foundation --

Securing Adequate Living Conditions for Each Child's Development / Arlene Bowers Andrews --

Drafting and Interpreting Article 27 / Natalie Hevener Kaufman, Maria Luisa Blanco --

The International Effort to Measure and Monitor the State of Children / Asher Ben-Arieh --

The Meaning of Child's Standard of Living / Jens Qvortrup --

The Relationship Between Standard of Living and Specific Developmental Domains --

The Relationship Between Standard of Living and Physical Development / Francis E. Rushton, Robert E. Greenberg --

An Adequate Standard of Living Necessary for Children's Cognitive (Mental) Development / Patricia Y. Hashima, Susan P. Limber --

A Standard of Living Adequate for Children's Spiritual Development / Ross A. Thompson, Brandy Randall --

The Meaning of a Standard of Living Adequate for Moral and Civic Development / Judith Torney-Purta --

The Social Development of the Child / Malfrid Grude Flekkoy, Natalie Hevener Kaufman --

Community Context --

Significance of Community Wealth for Child Development: Assumptions and Issues / Frank D. Barry --

Community Obligations and the Categorization of Children / Leroy H. Pelton --

The Application of Human Capital Theory to Article 27 / Allen M. Parkman --

Implementing Article 27 in Various Contexts --

A Cross-cultural Examination of Article 27 of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child / Virginia Murphy-Berman --

Entitlement to "Adequacy": Application of Article 27 to U.S. Law / Robin Kimbrough.