This paper reflects on the opportunity to take steps in the direction of proposing international
systems of subjective social indicators of children's and adolescents' well-being. In order to
contextualize such a reflection, a brief summary of the historical and epistemological
foundations of the concept of social indicators, and of some of the controversies associated
with the research results during the first decades of its existence, is made. Such foundations,
research results and consequent debates have mostly been developed considering only …