America Is Guilty of Neglecting Kids: Our Own [nytimes.com]

It’s not just the kids at the border.

America systematically shortchanges tens of millions of children, including homegrown kids. The upshot is that American kids are more likely to be poor, to drop out of high school and even to die young than in other advanced countries.

We tear apart homegrown families, too, through mass incarceration, excessive juvenile detention and overuse of foster care. One black child in 10 spends time in foster care — and 61,000 foster kids have simply gone missing since 2000.

[For more on this story by Nicholas Kristof, go to https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...extreme-poverty.html]