A Children Now Executive Summary University of Minnesota Children, Youth and Family Consortium. Permission is granted to create and distribute copies of this document for noncommercial purposes provided that the author and CYFC receive acknowledgment and this notice is included.
Children Now is a nonpartisan policy and advocacy organization for children.
We focus particular attention on children who are poor or at-risk. Generates new resources for cost-effective programs that benefit children and families Reaches out to parents and children to inform them of opportunities to help themselves. By the time a child today graduates from high school, he or she will have spent more time in front of a television set than in a classroom. Last year, Children Now sponsored the first-ever content analysis to examine how children are portrayed in television news and newspapers. How children see people their age portrayed on television is important.