This report attempts to identify the relevant environmental factors which have an impact upon the quality of life of the child. The following are discussed: (1) introduction--population growth, population growth and natural resource reserves, GNP and the quality of life, regulation of population size, population quality; (2) prenatal consideration--prenatal supervision and care, nutrition, placental abnormalities, intrauterine infections, drugs, maternal disease, environmental stress, subpopulations, physicians suggest improvements for consumers and systems, public service vendors; (3) perinatal and postnatal considerations--labor and delivery, neonatal period (risk factors, prediction impairment), social considerations during infancy (illegitimacy and its consequences, parental deprivation, abuse and neglect, other influences upon emotional and social development), prelinguistic development and influencing factors, motor development and related factors, nutrition, the service pattern and physicians' comments, and public vendors. (KM)