CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES: HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 SELECT COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES GEORGE MILLER, California, Chairman WILLIAM LEHMAN, Florida BERYL ANTHONY, JR., Arkansas BRUCE A. MORRISON, Connecticut DAN MARRIOTT, Utah HAMILTON FISH, JR., New York THOMAS J. BLILEY, JR., Virginia NANCY L. JOHNSON, Connecticut COMMITTEE STAFF ALAN J. STONE, Staff Director and Counsel (II) CONTENTS Page Chapman, Bruce, Director, U.S. Census Bureau, accompanied by Gordon Green, Chief, Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau, James Weed, Chief, Marriage and Family Statistics Branch, U.S. Census Bureau...... 83 Claxton, Reed, West Covina, Calif. ...... Brazelton, Dr. T. Berry, chief, child development unit, Children's Hospital Medical Center, and associate professor of pediatrics, Harvard Medical Holton, Dr. Gerald, Mallinckrodt, professor of physics and professor of history of science, Harvard University, and Visiting Professor, Massa- Nicholi, Armand, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., faculty, Harvard Medical School, staff, Massachusetts General Hospital, and former chairman, Massachusetts Richman, Harold, director, Social Policy Research Center, and director, Children's Policy Research Project, National Opinion Research Center; and Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor, School of Social Service Adminis- Royle, Dorothy Williams, Dr. Walter, professor of economics, George Mason University, Chapman, Bruce, Director, U.S. Census Bureau, Accompanied by Gordon Green, Chief, Population Division, U.S. Census Bureau, and James Weed, Chief, Marriage and Family Statistics Branch, U.S. Census (III) Prepared statements, letters, supplemental materials, etc.-Continued Holton, Dr. Gerald, Mallinckrodt professor of physics and professor of Johnson, Hon. Nancy L., a Representative in Congress from the State of Connecticut, prepared statement of... Kramer, Rita, author, prepared statement of... Richman, Harold, director, Social Policy Research Center, and director, Children's Policy Research Project, National Opinion Research Center; and Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor, School of Social Service Adminis- tration, University of Chicago, prepared statement of Rivlin, Dr. Alice M., Director, Congressional Budget Office: "Congressional Budget Office Study of the Intergovernment Grants 158 Vucanovich, Hon. Barbara F., a Representative in Congress from the State of Nevada, prepared statement of... Wolfe, Hon. Frank R., a Representative in Congress from the State of APPENDIX Shannon, R., third grade, Huntington Beach, Calif. Typewritten letter beginning, "I have been asked to speak about 3rd 184 CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES: BEGINNING THE ASSESSMENT THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1983 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SELECT COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES, Washington, D.C. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:35 a.m., in room 210, Cannon House Office Building, Hon. George Miller (chairman of the committee) presiding. Members present: Representatives Miller, Lehman, Schroeder, McHugh, Patterson, Mikulski, Weiss, Leland, Boxer, Levin, Morrison, Rowland, Sikorski, Wheat, Marriott, Fish, Coats, Bliley, Wolf, Burton, Johnson, McKernan, and Vucanovich. Staff present: Alan J. Stone, staff director and counsel; Ann Rosewater, deputy staff director; Christine Elliott-Groves, minority staff director; and Joan Godley, committee clerk. Chairman MILLER. The Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families will come to order. It is with great pleasure that I call to order the first hearing of the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. I am proud to participate in this historic event. Never before has Congress taken upon itself the responsibility and initiative to confront comprehensively the issues affecting this constituency. Many people have joined together to help create what we believe to be a vitally important forum in Congress. I share that view, and I am sure each member of this committee, on both sides of the aisle, shares that view. For each of us has come to see the need for this committee and for the work we hope it will accomplish. But each of us also may have a different observation, a different perspective, a different agenda in mind when we look at the current status of children, youth, and families in America. One would get many answers if one were to ask even the members of this committee, "Why do we need this committee?" And, contrary to the conventional wisdom, I think that diversity will be one of our greatest strengths. Although none by itself presents the entire truth, each point of view is legitimate, and each is reason enough for this committee. Taken together, they surely answer the question, "Why this committee?" We need this committee because: First, we are impressed with the dramatic and permanent changes in the living situations of families and children: More children born into poverty, more raised in single-parent families, more (1) |