October 7, 2011
Huffington Post
A Parent, Community, and National Audit: It's Time for Adults to Shape up and Close the Hypocrisy Gap
By Marian Wright Edelman
I am often asked, what's wrong with our children? Children having children. Children killing themselves or others. Children dropping out of school and roaming streets alone or in gangs. Children addicted to tobacco and alcohol, drinking and drugging themselves to escape reality. Children being locked up in jails with adult criminal mentors, bubbling with rage and crushed by depression….
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