The effort to measure and monitor children's well-being and the use of child well-being indicators is not new. However, recent years have brought new and growing attention to the field, and some argue, the revival of the children's social indicators movement. Much of this new activity can be traced back to the 1960s social indicators movement and be accounted for by UNICEF's State of the World's Children annual report, as well as other international and national initiatives and projects. The United Nation's Convention on the Rights of the Child, through its global ratification and its reporting and monitoring mechanism, has also played a major role in increasing interest in the field. This paper presents the history and development of the field, identifies current trends, and predicts where the field is headed.

social indicators, children’s well-being, subjective well being,

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This study investigated whether the associations between (a) the quality of the parent-child relationship and peer acceptance and (b) early adolescents' life satisfaction differed depending on the importance of family values in the respective culture. As part of the Value of Children Study, data from a subsample of N = 1,034 adolescents (58% female, M age = 13.62 years, SD = 0.60 years) from 11 cultures was analyzed. Multilevel analyses revealed a positive relation between parental admiration and adolescents' life satisfaction independent of cultural membership. Further, the higher the importance at UNIV OF ILLINOIS URBANA on March 15, 2015 jea.sagepub.com Downloaded from

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