I emphatically cannot understand how anyone who professes to be concerned about children would not be extremely involved in environmental issues at home and abroad. Forty thousand children are still dying every day of easily preventible diseases. How many people here talk about leveling the playing field so most of the world is middle class? Not too many, and they are all liberals. While conservatives seem to care for their own children, I am not hearing very much discussion about children's issues in general from them, and yet I talk about these things here frequently.
Some of the things people who are really concerned about children advocate for are the end of child labor in sweatshops across the world, environmental regulation of global corporations, and stopping deforestation. I cannot understand how anyone who loves children would not be horrified about the world we are leaving them, and be doing everything they can to make it a better place instead of a warming, foul, degraded one where species are dying and most children do not even have access to clean, drinkable water.
Should I take that as a dig at me personally? It could be read as such.
I emphatically cannot understand how anyone who professes to be concerned about children would not be extremely involved in environmental issues at home and abroad.
While conservatives seem to care for their own children, I am not hearing very much discussion about children's issues in general from them, and yet I talk about these things here frequently.
I cannot understand how anyone who loves children would not be horrified about the world we are leaving them, and be doing everything they can to make it a better place instead of a warming, foul, degraded one where species are dying and most children do not even have access to clean, drinkable water.
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You are correct--we have posted some good information about children's issues here, and we have done it consistently. Now if all the right-wing conservatives and libertarians who post here would just start small by supporting products that do not harm children or use their labor, we would be far ahead, making real progress for children everywhere!
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What about the 1.8 million reported incidents of child abuse and neglect annually right here in the United States? Right under our noses, down the road from your little cottage and in ionesco's nice suburban neighborhood? In my community which for some reason has a reporting rate nearly twice the state average?
What's wrong with making efforts to reduce child abuse and neglect here at home? Instead, the posts here suggest that unless everyone works to eradicate Indonesian sweatshops, buys fair trade coffee and sugar, boycotts Coca Cola and Nike products, foregoes Chinese fireworks this Fourth of July, they really are not sensitive to children's issues and are working to eradicate child abuse and neglect.
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Grainne, what ever happened to that old saying from some years back, "think globally, act locally?"
Fact is, child abuse and neglect is a huge issue right here under our noses, in our neighborhoods. That was my point. Yet there seems to be a desire disregard that dirty little fact and to try to deflect the discussion to one of global issues such as fair trade coffee and the practices of the evil corporations.
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This will be my last post (for now) on the topic. I'm off to the mountains for the day. |
