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Features two former adolescent gamblers. How they started gambling; Account on things they did due to gambling addiction; Purpose of Gamblers Anonymous.

Considers the efforts of Trish Incorvia, sister of a teenager who was killed in an accident by a drunk driver, to call for tougher drunk driving laws in America. How her brother got killed; Her advice for those who drink; Things she learned from the accident of her brother.

Discusses how the use of marijuana helps patients with Crohns' disease. Symptoms of the disease; Information from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; Reference to Proposition 215, which was passed in 1996, to allow the medicinal use of marijuana in California.

Presents an interview with Congressman Charles B. Rangel, representative of the 15th Congressional District in New York, about his national Empowerment Zone legislation and his zone in Upper Manhattan. What is Empowerment Zone; Funding for Empowerment Zones; Selection of Empowerment Zones; How Empowerment Zones will benefit the community; Affect of the Empowerment Zones on the welfare system; Number of jobs the Empowerment Zones will produce.

Presents an interview with Mark Green, Public Advocate in New York City, concerning the inefficient operations of the Child Welfare Administration (CWA). Findings of a survey on the CWA; Complaints received by the CWA; Recognition of Green's evaluation of the CWA following the death of a 6-year-old abused child in 1995; Effect of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's budget cuts on the CWA; Impact on the loss of personnel on the CWA; Green's comments.

Reports that Patrick Smith a clinical psychologist from London University and the head of United Nations Children's Fund's (UNICEF) psychosocial program in Mostar, Bosnia, is helping children in there to recover from the traumatic stress of the war. Interview carried out by the `Children's Express'; Community-based approach suggested; What this approach involves. INSET: Nursery director helps young children to move beyond war..

Presents the negative views of children affected by the war in Bosnia that divided their city called Mostar. Loss of relatives and friends; Aggression of Croats; Evacuation from Mostar.

Part II. Focuses on the growing problem of child support in the United States. Problem on the unwillingness of noncustodial parents to pay child support; Call for the implementation of a federal system for collecting child support; Efforts of the US Congress to pass child support reform.

Presents the views of children from the Middle East on peace in light of the assassination of israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin. Comparison between the social conditions in Israel and the United States; Importance of peace and treaties; Efforts to bring about peace.

Presents children's opinion on the trial of former football star O.J. Simpson. Racism in the United States; Racial composition of the jury; Refusal of some black people to address sexism within their community; Reaction to black-white marriages.

Features the New American Revolution, an organization trying to help kids by getting corporate sponsors to donate time and money to kids in schools across the United States. Sponsorship of the Whistle Stop Train program; Remarks by New American Revolution founder and chairman James B. Haynes.

Features Operation Smile, an organization composed of a group of doctors who volunteer to travel to Third World countries to perform operations on children with facial deformities like cleft lips, palates and burn scars or tumors. Includes a youth organization called Happy Clubs where teenagers help raise money and train to go on volunteer missions with the plastic surgeons; Accomplishments of the organization.

Presents the excerpts of the interviews of Paul Caponera, a Red Cross public affairs officer based in St. Louis and Wendy Hayashi, a member of the Youth in Emergency Services in Los Angeles. Details. INSET: The American Red Cross..

Interviews `Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics' author Louise Armstrong on the issue of incest. Media's role in drowning out the root of the problem; Seeming disappearance of the taboo behind incest; Difficulty in advising kids on what to do about incest in every situation.