The title of the conference - organised by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, in Bari from 27 to 28 March 2014 - Investing in childhood, recalls the importance of investing in children in terms of...

The role of the educator  in communities for minors is the theme of the Rassegna bibliografica 3/2011 written by Monica Pedrazza, Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Verona. The contribution...

As regards the legal field, beside the articles Le punizioni corporali nel diritto internazionale (Corporal punishment in international law) by Paolo De Stefani – with the fact sheet by Tessa Onida summarizing relevant...

The Childhood and Adolescence Classification Scheme is designed to perform mainly a function of physical placement of documents on shelves, based on simple principles that do not require particular classification skills ("mark...

The editorial of this issue, titled Una comunità che educa (An educating community), was written by Pierpaolo Triani, Associate Professor of General Didactics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Piacenza and...

Some of the topics addressed in the third issue of 2010 are a survey on adoptive families, the indicators of child well-being and the National Plan for Children and Adolescents.

The first analysis article, by Maria Teresa...

The second issue of 2010, which is not monographic, contains interviews and analysis articles on current aspects concerning childhood and adolescence, as well as reports of projects and initiatives currently underway in Italy.  

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Cittadini in crescita resumes with a new series, coming out every three months. The first issue is not monographic and it contains interviews and analysis articles on current aspects concerning childhood and adolescence, as...

Children’s futures lie in the present: this is the title of the National Conference on Childhood and Adolescence held in Naples from 18 to 20 November 2009.

Organised by the Ministry of Labour, Health...

The 2008-2009 Two-year report on the condition of children and adolescents in Italy collects the contributions of the various working groups of the National Observatory on Childhood and Adolescence. Being divided on a thematic...

The Third and fourth reports of the Italian Government on the condition of childhood and adolescence in Italy were sent to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in the original English version on 22 January 2009. The Italian...

The Italian Thesaurus on Childhood and Adolescence (Th.I.A.)  includes in a verified vocabulary all the terms used in the subject-matter of every type of document acquired by the Centre (bibliographic, legal, statistical and...

Europa has grown. The traditional 15 Member States were joined in 2004 by 10 countries of the Eastern Bloc and on 1 January 2007 by Bulgaria and Romania. But how do families and, above all, children and adolescents live in the EU...

After years of steady decline, the birth rate is rising again in Italy. It is increasing especially in the north and a little less in the center of the country. The demographic decline seems to have temporarily stopped and according to...

The survey, which involved approximately 24,000 families, 29.2% of which with under-age children, comes a few years after the previous statistical study, which had focused for the first time on aspects concerning in particular minors....

The two-year report on the condition of children and adolescents in Italy was drawn up following the indications given by the National Observatory on Childhood and Adolescence in January 2004. Therefore, attention was paid not only to...

The National Conference on Childhood and Adolescence was held on 21 and 22 November 2005 in Florence, organised by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and the National Centre for Documentation and Analysis on Childhood and...

In questa edizione dei “numeri europei” dell’infanzia e l’adolescenza il Centro Nazionale ha inserito i dati principali riguardanti i nuovi Paesi entrati a far parte dell’Unione europea...

The electronic publication was distributed as a companion to the magazine ‘Cittadini in crescita’ 2/2003. It contains the minutes of the second National Conference on Childhood, held in Collodi in November 2002, and was put together by...

Il Quaderno 25 si sviluppa in venti capitoli tematici con informazioni che riguardano i vari argomenti attinenti ai bambini e ai ragazzi – popolazione, adozioni e...

Nel Quaderno 22 viene analizzato lo studio statistico sulla condizione dell’infanzia e l’adolescenza che pone a confronto i quindici Paesi dell’Unione europea; segue il primo studio sperimentale su...

On the one hand, this report on the condition of children and adolescents in Italy intends to examine some open questions of the 2000s which show that, without being over-pessimistic, today’s children and adolescents are difficult to...

Il Quaderno 17 offre un quadro sistematico ed approfondito dei dati e degli indicatori statistici disponibili oggi, nel nostro Paese, sull’infanzia e l’adolescenza.

In questa...