Foundations of well-being in children’s and youth’s everyday lives in Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan

Abstract The contributions in this special section deal with growing up two post-Soviet states – Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan. Each contribution has a different priority on the variety of forces that shape wellbeing children youth as structured interaction between efforts abilities their families, state, well social health policies both national cross-national contexts. In section, we understand infrastructure places institutions for day-care, education, leisure, services. papers identify barriers young people encounter they attempt to realize potential wishes social, educational, These obstacles have something common: are rooted deficit public is evident these (European Commission, 2011; Sardarova, 2020; OECD, 2018; UNICEF, 2015).