EXTENSIVE new rights have been conferred on American children. Children in some states, for example, are now empowered to divorce their parents. Thirteen year-old girls may obtain birth control devices over the objections of their parents. A Ukrainian mother, whose twelve-year-old son was separated from her and her husband because he did not want to move back to the Ukraine with them, put the current state of affairs this way: “Who really tells the children what to do? Are the children the parents and the parents the children?”