Children can be the center of our world.
They are the object of hundreds of photographs, the subject of most conversations and the recipients of a major share of the family's resources, demanding everything from diapers to doctors' visits. But the truth is that many of us do forget our children when we're filling out our census forms. The goal of Census 2000, just like previous censuses, is 100-percent participation by every man, woman and child living in the United States. The 1990 census missed about 4 million people. As many as half of these missing persons were under the age of 18 and many of these children were under the age of 10.