"The Declining Well-Being of American Adoles-cents" Peter Uhlenberg and David Egge- been, in The Public Interest (Winter 19861, 10 East 53rd St., New York, N.Y. 10022.
Pointing to "leading indicators" of child welfare, social scientists and Wash- ington policy-makers predicted great progress for America's youth during the 1960s and '70s.
Indeed, the proportion of white 16- and 17-year-olds living in homes with poverty or large families or poorly educated parents-all factors...