Dr. David Hamburg does not flinch from using strong words. The U.S., he says, is committing "atrocities" on its children. "We've already lost a substantial portion of the generation of kids under age 16," declares Hamburg, president of the Carnegie Corporation, a leading foundation in child- development research. "They're lost to drug abuse, crime and teen pregnancy, but also to more subtle corrosives like malnutrition, illiteracy and poor self-esteem."
The destruction that Hamburg chronicles in his new book, Today's Children: Creating a Future for a Generation in Crisis (Times Books, 376 pages, $25), has been inadvertent, a by-product of the social...
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