The Future of Children journal offers comprehensive, cross-disciplinary articles focusing on issues related to children. Published twice per year, it seeks to promote effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, the media, and others interested in children's issues with timely, objective information based on the best available research. Each journal issue examines a single topic of importance to children from a multidisciplinary perspective. The first issue was released in 1991 by the Packard Foundation. Since 2004, Princeton University and the Brookings Institution have been publishing The Future of Children. All journal articles are available on the The Future of Children website at http://www.futureofchildren.org.

The Future of Children is published by Princeton University, based in Princeton, NJ. Production and implementation of producing the journal is overseen by the Office of Communications at Princeton University. Princeton Communications manages the content of the University's official print publications, the main website, the release of University news and the use of Princeton's name. It also provides a variety of communications services to faculty and staff.