Preliminaries -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Securing Adequate Living Conditions for Each Child's Development -- 2 Drafting and Interpreting Article 27 -- 3 The International Effort to Measure and Monitor the State of Children -- 4 The Meaning of Child's Standard of Living -- 5 The Relationship Between Standard of Living and Physical Development -- 6 An Adequate Standard of Living Necessary for Children's Cognitive Mental Development -- 7 A Standard of Living Adequate for Children's Spiritual Development -- 8 The Meaning of a Standard of Living Adequate for Moral and Civic Development -- 9 The Social Development of the Child -- 10 Significance of Community Wealth for Child Development -- 11 Community Obligations and the Categorization of Children -- 12 The Application of Human Capital Theory to Article 27 -- 13 A Cross-cultural Examination of Article 27 of the U.N. -- 14 Entitlement to Adequacy Application of Article 27 to U S Law -- 15 The Application of Article 27 in the Czech Republic Implications for Countries in Transition -- 16 Twenty Six Steps to Article 27 The Example of African American Children in South Carolina -- 17 Confronting the Implementation Challenge -- Appendix Convention on the Rights of the Child -- Index -- About the Contributors.