The social and economic role, legal status, community construction and
perception of children has changed considerably in the post-war decades in the
industrialised countries as birth rates have fallen, on the one hand, and the
structure of families has changed, on the other. With the UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, children have emerged with a new and separate identity in
society.
New professions focusing especially on children have been developing within
existing ones and interdisciplinary collaboration is emerging as a mechanism to
support the new services being established especially for children.
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