child well-being

Kids' overall health

Child well-being is the overall state of a child's health, happiness, and development—physical, emotional, and social.

The term appears frequently in policy discussions, social services, and research: The program aims to improve child well-being in underserved communities.

Measures of child well-being typically include factors like nutrition, education, safety, and family stability.

Related

literacy · numeracy · empathy · psychological resilience · curiosity · family bonding · quality time · warm hugs · school readiness · creativity · exercise · immunization · emotional intelligence · safe spaces · coping mechanisms · play · sleep · screen time

Opposites
harm vs. flourishing

child well-beingchild abuse

Harm inflicted on minors

child neglect · child endangerment · child exploitation · child trauma · childhood adversity

care orientation

child well-beingparental neglect

Failing to care for dependents

child abandonment · child trafficking

age group focus

child well-beinggeriatric care

Medicine for old age

Family

child, well-being, children, childish, childlike, childhood, childless, childlessness, well

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G