The issue of poverty is a reality based on the information from the article. The well-being of children and child poverty goes beyond the concept of household income. It is in record those approximately eight million children who are under the age of five die due to preventable causes; this statistics is based on developing nations. The approach used by human rights in measuring child wellbeing seems to be realistic. As a matter of fact, child well-being is determined by the aspect to eliminate deprivation from various aspects of child life (Gordon et al 6). The essence of suing the income as one of the measurement is realistic since when there is no income the adults or guardian of children are not in a position to satisfy the basic needs that are stated by human rights.
Actually the domains of well being mentioned in the article are important but not equally important. The domains stated in the article are important but there are some that are critically necessary (Pemberton 24). Based on the article I believe that the physical domains of well being are very important more than any other domain. This is because deprivation of the physical domain will basically lead to lose of life (Gordon et al 8). There other domains are also important since deprivation of it will cause problems in the life of an individual.
Based on the analysis Philipe Aries would critically focus on the approaches to measuring child well-being in different way. One of the main considerations would be the fact that childhood as a stage has various sociological demands that are different from that of adults and that should basically streamlines the approaches used in measuring child wellbeing. According to Aries, the aspect of childhood is always dynamic and ever-shifting concept that should be considered in the measurement of well-being. The measurement of child well-being should consider the aspect of innocence and differentiate it from the aspect of measuring adults since that of adult need less protection from the reality.
Work Cited
Gordon, David., Nandy, Shailen., Pantazis, Christina., Pemberton, Simon, & Townsend, peter. Child Poverty in the Developing World. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2003
Pemberton, Simon., Gordon, David & Nandy, Shailen. Global Child Poverty and Well-Being: Child Rights, Child Survival, and Child Poverty: The Debate. Bristol: The Policy Press, 2012
