This document comprises the three issues of Volume 14 of the "Speak Out for Children" newsletter, published to strengthen families through education and to assist children of unwed parents, separation, and divorce. The Spring 1999 issue contains articles on National Child's Day, joint custody presumptions, changes in children's life and activities from 1981 to 1997, proposed anti-joint custody legislation, and father absence and criminal activity. The Summer-Fall 1999 issue includes articles on the West Virginia shared parenting law, state rankings on the best places to raise children, and children's access to their noncustodial parents. The Winter 1999-2000 issue contains articles on the Fathers Count Act passed by the House of Representatives, the Oklahoma Parentage Act, and the relation between divorce rates and joint custody. Regular features of the newsletter include book reviews, notice of funding opportunities and conferences, news from individual chapters of the organization, descriptions of relevant court cases, and descriptions of pending federal legislation. (KB)