title: Child advocacy: a perspective.
abstract: Child advocacy provides a vehicle for building checks into systems that fail children. This paper examines the assumptions underlying child advocacy efforts, the types of child advocacy programs that have developed in the past few years, and the types of strategies used by child advocates.
mesh_terms: D002651:Child Advocacy; D002669:Child Welfare; D002961:Civil Rights; D005380:Financing, Government; D005381:Financing, Organized; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D012922:Social Change; D014481:United States