Table of Contents

Part one Social conditions; Chapter 1 The social and economic cost of transition; Chapter 2 Child health; Chapter 3 Environment; Chapter 4 Nutrition; Chapter 5 Education; Part two Child protection; Chapter 6 Children on the front line: Child refugees and victims of war; Chapter 7 Child neglect, abuse, and exploitation; Chapter 8 Child labor; Chapter 9 Juvenile crime; Part three Different faces of the transition; Chapter 10 Children in the republics of former Yugoslavia; Chapter 11 Central Europe; Chapter 12 Children of the Baltic countries; Chapter 13 Southeastern Europe; Chapter 14 Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine; Chapter 15 The Caucasus countries; Chapter 16 The Central Asian republics and Kazakhstan; Chapter 17 The Aral Sea disaster zone; Chapter 18 Minority groups;