Recognising that many indicators of vulnerability among children, such as malnutrition or poor educational performance, might reflect intergenerational problems has profound implications for the design and implementation of social protection programmes. Treating the symptoms of these problems is of course essential: a malnourished child needs immediate nutritional support and a child uuho is failing at school needs special attention. But the argument of this paper is that 'taking the long vieuu' is imperative if the reasons uuhy children are malnourished, or failing, are to be correctly identified and adequately addressed. Importantly, the analysis implies directing interventions not exclusively at the children uuho are at risk, but at others in society uuho are responsible for the care of children.
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