The Decade of Lost Children - by Charles M. Blow - NYTimes.com 05/08/2011

NYTimes.com, by Charles M. Blow, 05/08/2011, excerpt/extracto.-

One of the greatest casualties of the great recession may well be a decade of lost children.

According to "The State of America’s Children 2011", a report issued last month by the Children’s Defense Fund, the impact of the recession on children’s well-being has been catastrophic.

Here is just a handful of the findings:

• The number of children living in poverty has increased by four million since 2000, and the number of children who fell into poverty between 2008 and 2009 was the largest single-year increase ever recorded.

• The number of homeless children in public schools increased 41 percent between the 2006-7 and 2008-9 school years.

• In 2009, an average of 15.6 million children received food stamps monthly, a 65 percent increase over 10 years.

• A majority of children in all racial groups and 79 percent or more of black and Hispanic children in public schools cannot read or do math at grade level in the fourth, eighth or 12th grades.

• The annual cost of center-based child care for a 4-year-old is more than the annual in-state tuition at a public four-year college in 33 states and the District of Columbia.

Grim data, indeed. And there is no sign that things will get better anytime soon.

Reforma a justicia de familia logró reducir plazos e instaurar mediación – emol – 05/01/2010

emol, Ximena Pérez, 05/01/2010, extracto.

Balance a cuatro años y tres meses de compleja puesta en marcha del sistema

El encargado de la unidad de apoyo a la reforma en la Corte Suprema aseguró que tras la normalización conseguida se apunta a mayor calidad del servicio. "Reducir los términos de agendamiento de 9 y 12 meses a 60 y 90 días es notable", destacó ayer con satisfacción el ministro de la Corte Suprema Héctor Carreño -jefe de la unidad de apoyo a la reforma de familia del máximo tribunal-. El juez hizo una evaluación del impacto de las medidas aplicadas tras el colapso del sistema, a poco de su puesta en marcha en octubre de 2005, y destacó que cuatro años después han logrado reducir ampliamente la espera por una audiencia.

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