THE 1990s MAY well prove to be the decade of child legislation. It is only 1991 and we have already seen the passage of a major child-care bill, a dramatic presidential proposal for educational reform, and two lengthy reports that recommend new children’s policies: one from the National Research Council (NRC), another, known as the “Rockefeller Report,” from the National Commission on Children (NCC). Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV), chairman of the NCC, echoed the prevailing mood when he declared in the Preface that the time has come to “save our children.”