This book provides an interdisciplinary projection of the factors affecting the lives of Europe's children in the coming decades. It is a sequel to a volume of the same name, published in 1979. Europe is undergoing dramatic changes, demographic, political and technological, which will influence the health, well-being and potential of children. Children are an ever diminishing proportion of the population and their interests rank low on the agenda of most countries. Efforts to improve the quality of their life tend to be uni-dimensional, focusing on a specific group or undertaken by a specific discipline. The absence of co-operation, coordination or even communication between professionals involved with children and families results in inappropriateness, inaccessibility and ineffectiveness of programmes for children and their families. Lack of advocacy for children results in priority being given to other groups. This book brings together professionals and researchers from a wide range of disciplines (maternal and child health, genetics, psychology, psychiatry, social sciences, epidemiology, city planning, education, law etc.), who participated in a conference, discussed the issues and contributed chapters on topics which appear to be of greatest importance, or to present new challenges, for the healthy development of Europe's children and their passage into a satisfying and productive adulthood. The chapters are arranged in five sections dealing with family, environment, health, education and state, with a final section covering the overall projections. Reference is made to the predictions made in the earlier volume, and the success or failure in basing action on those predictions, and special emphasis is given to children with special needs. Following a foreword (S. Nakou and S. Pantelakis); and preface (S. Pantelakis), this book is divided in five sections and the following selected papers. Section I, Child and Family, presents: an introduction (J. Tsiantis); Family Trends and Children's Futures (M. Rutter); and Growing up in a Violent Family (K. Browne and I. Fereti). Section II, Child and Environment, contains: an introduction (A. D. Tsouros); The Environment and Children's Quality of Life (B. Lindstrom); Access to Education and Recreation for All (K. Sokou and J.-C. Vuille); and Children with Special Needs: Community Approaches (J. Calder and S. Tsitoura). Section III, Child and Education, contains: an introduction (A. Dimaras); Incorporating Children with Learning Disabilities in the Normal School System (G. O. B. Thomson); and Issues of Literacy (F. E. Tonnessen and A. Kiossoglou-Adams). Section IV, Child and Health, contains: an introduction (P. Lapatsanis); Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future in the Field of Health (M. Manciaux); and AIDS and Children (N. Matsaniotis). Section V, Child and State, presents: an introduction (A. Petros-Barvazian); The Impact of Political and Economic Change on Children (M. Wagner); and The Use and Misuse of the Media (M. Serafetinidou). Section VI, Implications for the Future of Europe's Children, includes: The Turn of the Century (M. Wagner); and The Future of the World's Children (L. Eisenberg). An index is also included.