IN “For the Sake of the Children” [Summer 1992], Richard Gill criticizes a study several collaborators and I published on the effects of divorce on children.† Gill first charges that our methodology and our interpretation are flawed, then launches into a broader discussion of contemporary marriage and divorce.  In an earlier Public Interest article, “Day Care or Parental Care?” [Fall 1991], Gill expressed similar concerns about the direction of family policy and the well-being of American children.