conversely when a built environment is dysfunctional for children it affects everyones quality of life looking at specific needs of children and their caretakers for every age helps to determine both generic and specific solutions for babies toddlers young children adolescents and youth the scales reflect the social ecological model that childrens development specialists use to build strategies to ensure childrens rights the access to appropriate urban services needs to be adjusted accordingly to a childs age needs and the daily patterns of its caretaker