Child Health and Public Policy.

At one time in our history, children were very important. Were it not for the labor they contributed, many families would not have risen above penury. To a considerable extent, we owe the success of our national growth over the first century of our nation to the children. We "rewarded" them with a system of public education that, with all of its problems, is still a model for most of the world [4]. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]