Unicef's state of the world's children report 2009: Where is the worst place in the world to grow up?

Unicef's 2009 state of the world's children report tells us what it's like to grow up in the poorest - and richest - places in the world.

He has two hot issues: health-care reform and the state of the nation's children.

There is encouraging news, at last, from the United Nations Children's Fund, which annually assesses the state of the world's children.

Although Don is implied to have had similar convictions, he later acknowledges a general state of disconnect between himself and his children.

Since then, he has traveled the nation, in part to promote his twin issues of health care and the state of the nation's children.

Like all the trees cut down to print our excellent report on the state of America's children, which passed unnoticed across many, many desks.

Thus the state of a node is deduced from the states of its children.

But the financial state of America's children becomes a stark national embarrassment when we compare it with that in other rich nations.

He finds that the state of America's poor children is every bit as bad as the low incomes suggest.