Activities of the House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families during 1987 are recounted in this report. After a brief summary of testimony received in hearings and a description of sites visited and reports issued, the committee print provides extended summaries and related factsheets concerning hearings on: (1) AIDS and young children; (2) homelessness; (3) child abuse and neglect in America; (4) child care and employment; (5) catastrophic health insurance; (6) race relations and adolescents; (7) the crisis in foster care; (8) changing economics in the South; (9) opportunities for success for children from infancy to adolescence; (10) alternative reproductive technologies; (11) prevention of out-of-home placement; (12) AIDS and teenagers; (13) Florida's economic future and the child care crisis for families; (14) American families in tomorrow's economy; (15) children's mental health; (16) eating disorders; (17) women, violence, and law; (18) infant mortality in Illinois; and (19) the parents' role in educational reform. After a list of witnesses and others submitting testimony, selected reports are excerpted. Excerpts concern official neglect of abused children in America, current conditions and recent trends related to U.S. children and their families, federal programs affecting children, and children and AIDS. Minority views of committee members are included. (RH)