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19 de Febrero, 2007
America Fails its Children
Categorized under Derechos Humanos | Tags: Children, Soul of the World
OH UH! It's report card time. UNICEF has done a study on 21 industrialized nations which they sum up in the report as "An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries." Looks like Murka should have spent more time doing homework instead of staying out late with the boys playing Kill the Raghead.
BERLIN/FLORENCE, 14 February 2007 – The UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre today releases the Report Card 7 which focuses on the well-being of children and young people in the world’s advanced economies and provides the first comprehensive assessment.
The six dimensions taken to measure the well- being of children – material well-being, health and safety, education, peer and family relationships, behaviours and risks, and young people’s own subjective sense of well-being – offer a picture of the lives of children, and no single dimension can stand as a reliable proxy for child well-being as a whole.
So how did we do? Well....we're not in last place, okay? I mean, second to last is not SO bad, right? After all, it's the thought that counts. Um, right?
The true measure of a nation’s standing is how well it attends to its children – their health and safety, their material security, their education and socialization, and their sense of being loved, valued, and included in the families and societies into which they are born.—UNICEF Report Card 7: Child Poverty in Perspective
Now, one more time? World's mightiest nation? Riiiiiiiiight. Mighty stupid. Mighty cruel.
I hear far more about people bemoaning zygotes being washed down the drain or stem cells being used to heal living beings than I do about helping the poor, starving, abused, lonely, or failing children that actually EXIST right now, in this country. So all you "pro-lifers/anti-choicers" and the rest who got your eyes fixed on abstracts and war glories: whyncha butter up your righteous diatribes with some caca and suckle your hypocrisy until it bloats ya so big you can't fit in your Escalade.
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Comentarios (9)
Blackamazon dijo:
but you see the born are already lost its the next generation the ones who havent been born that we hope wont fuck up.
And they swear swear it ha s nothing to do with teh demographic and women most likely to get selective abortions
NOPE
Not at all
Palabras por Blackamazon spat forth on el 19 de Febrero, 2007 at 04:37 PM
Ill Do Chay dijo:
Yep it's gotta be that next generation, because the current one is going to war or a life of crime.
Palabras por Ill Do Chay spat forth on el 19 de Febrero, 2007 at 05:00 PM
erizzle dijo:
no data for the subjective well-being of children in the us. none fxxxin' necessary.
Palabras por erizzle spat forth on el 19 de Febrero, 2007 at 07:55 PM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
i noticed that too. odd. i dont know if they didnt bother asking, or what. anyway, who cares what the children have to say.
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 19 de Febrero, 2007 at 08:01 PM
erizzle dijo:
the us government has a series of laws that pretty much prohibit social scientists from collecting info from children. it for "protecting" the children and the "values" of children's parents. you see? we'd like to know that children are going hungry and being force-fed hate and violence, but our family values are just too darn tootin' strong.
p.s. Nezua,
you were being discussed late night over at Pandagon (guess which story?).
Palabras por erizzle spat forth on el 20 de Febrero, 2007 at 08:50 AM
nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez dijo:
ah, thanks erizzle. i had no idea. i can see the point...but i wish there were a way to hear their vioces. kids have so much to say.
has my name been evoked by the pandagonians? well...as long as it's not in a Hot and Sticky™ fashion (isn't that what those Godless Feminazis® are known for?) i'm sure it's quite cool. actually, that might even be cooler.
i'll have to go snoop around and see whassup. graz for the tip.
Update: i can't find it. oh well. if you stumble across a link, feel free to throw it my way. thanks
Palabras por nezua limón xolagrafik-jonez spat forth on el 20 de Febrero, 2007 at 08:54 AM
erizzle dijo:
http://pandagon.net/2007/02/17/john-aravosis-to-keep-job-with-george-a-custer-for-president-campaign-team/#comments
i think the first mention of you comes at:
Feb 19th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Palabras por erizzle spat forth on el 20 de Febrero, 2007 at 09:46 AM
Rafael dijo:
You can have guns OR butter, but not both:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
- General Dwight D. Eisenhower
Palabras por Rafael spat forth on el 20 de Febrero, 2007 at 09:59 AM
kactus dijo:
Eh, doncha know it's just a moonbat plot? And besides, those dumbass kids shoulda known better than to be born to poor people. If they'd only studied Ayn Rand and the free market, we wouldn't have to worry about 'em.
Sincerely,
a random freeper
Palabras por kactus spat forth on el 20 de Febrero, 2007 at 07:53 PM