Articles tagged with: children
Global Hunger: The True Wreckage
As we in America worry about the possible loss of homes, melting banks and disappearing jobs in the face of a global recession, there is a crisis of an even more dramatic proportion. World-wide, more than a billion people are starving. They have no food. They had no food yesterday and they will not have food tomorrow. With the richest …
Sit Down, Sit Down, Sit Down, Sit Down, Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ The Boat
These lyrics from the play GUYS AND DOLLS say so much, so concisely. As a woman and a Boomer, I guess I have been rockin’ the boat for many years. Somehow the activism from the sixties never left my soul. I don’t believe in labels, per se’. I would not call myself a feminist, for example. I am an individual …
Homicide: America’s Children Fall At Hands Of Loved Ones
In my former career as a social worker I once interviewed a father who had come to my office for financial help. He was nicely dressed in a suit and his three children were polite, neatly attired and well-behaved. I remember commenting to him about how good it was to see a father as the primary caregiver for his children. …
