In 1900 the Swedish social theorist Ellen Key introduced the assumption of a Century of the kid. fresh media stories, from capturing and racial violence within the US to the newest information from ISIS-dominated components offer a darker imaginative and prescient: it really is on no account a time for kids; it's a time within which children’s wellness is being the reason for fear. This ebook is ready faculties and safeguard of kids, and proposes how one can make sure the minimal criteria of protection in faculties. the difficulty of safeguard isn't just vital in particular clash settings, but additionally an increasing number of in mainstream colleges within the Western context. for that reason the e-book isn't really concentrating on a selected geographic region, yet studying a number of contexts of adversity, together with these plagued by poverty, excessive occurrence of HIV/AIDS, in addition to clash and publish conflict-affected parts. It additionally illustrates the results of such contexts: 

• non-enrollment of youngsters or early dropout from school;

• numerous types of abuse and bullying at domestic and school; 

• elevated occurrence of kid marriage;

• abusive baby exertions, and from time to time, the worst kinds of baby labor. 

The university emerges as an establishment that can play a better function in safeguard of kids and that still may supply larger aid within the transition from adolescence to paintings and marriage.