The survey gathered responses from 18 members of a Long Island, N.Y., parent group and 8 college students. The majority viewed children aged 5 to 9 as more suggestible than adults when an adult provided the suggestions. However, disagreement existed about children's memory skills and consistency. The first experimental study gathered views of 36 college students who read case summaries of a robbery in which the sole eyewitness was either the 6- or 10-year-old grandson of the victim or his 30-year-old son. A control group read an otherwise strong case that included no eyewitness, based on the victim's verbal report before he died. Subjects always gave guilty verdicts when the eyewitness was an adult, but their verdicts did not differ for the cases in which there was no eyewitness or a child eyewitness. The second experiment also used college students and focused on the influence of inconsistency in the eyewitness's account and on the effect of the defendant's possible sentence. Inconsistency reduced the credibility of the young child, but not the older child or an adult. However, guilty verdicts were unaffected by age. The communication/persuasion model appears useful for examining juror reactions to children's testimony. Data tables, figure, and 47 references.