“ “Child”: means a boy or a girl apparently or effectively aged less than eighteen years” (Van Stolk 146). “Rich kids, middle-class kids, poor kids - all deal with risk and neglect on a scale unimagined in previous generations” (Hewitt 11). There are problems of poverty, absentee parents, divorce, violence and drugs, plus much more that is simply out of hand. Deprivation and rejection dominate the lives of many children, among both poor and middle-class. We cannot ensure …showed first 75 words of 1338 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1338 total…they will drag this nation down” (Hewitt 10). Bibliography - Canadian Council on Children and Youth. Admittance restricted: The child as citizen in Canada. Ottawa, Ont. , c1978. - Van Stolk, Mary. The battered child in Canada. Rev. ed.Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, c1978. - Hewitt, Sylvia Ann. When the bough breaks: the cost of neglecting our children. New York, New York. 1987. - Wilsonn, Jeffrey. Up against it : Children and the law in Canada. Toronto, Anasi. c1980.