The Next Generation: Lives of Third World Children

As this two-part study makes painfully clear, children in most areas of the world lead lives of appalling misery, deprivation, and cruelty. The authors, two British academics, first contrast the high-sounding U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child with the squalid reality of young people's daily existence in developing countries. The second part of this often shocking analysis presents a survey on the day-to-day lives of children in 12 diverse countries such as India, Thailand, and Cuba. In the Third World children are clearly those who suffer most from chronic poverty. This book should be widely read.-- Ian Wallace, Food Research & Development Centre Lib., St. Hyacinthe, Quebec Copyright 1990 Cahners Business Information.