Commentary: Poverty Is Child Abuse
Judith Sandalow, the Executive Director of the Children's Law Center, provides powerful and eloquent commentary on one of the greatest risks facing children in the United States today: poverty. Please take a few minutes to listen to her important message, which was recently aired on the Washington D.C. NPR affiliate, WAMU. -M
Nice quantification of the costs of poverty. It would be good see where the numbers came from and how they were calculated, to get this message out in the national debate of how to spend the federal money coming into the cities in the next coming months.
It isis important to note that most low income parent's are not intentionally poor or intentionally raising their children in poverty, whereas child abuse can be caused through intent or negligence. Lifting single mothers out of poverty or double parent households out of poverty is of utmost importance, but it is important to be careful with the analogies/language we use in that discourse. Poor parents don't need any more guilt or shame than they already have to deal with on a daily basis.