Children

“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors—we borrow it from our children.” Native American Chief Seattle
Brave Children
The only two countries that did not ratify the Convention on the rights of the child are the US and Somalia. A UN report documents the terrible violence against children that globally obtains today. "Every country in the world with the exception of two (Somalia and ... the United States) has ratified the International Convention on the Rights of the Child."
"Finland’s child poverty rate at less than 5 percent, the lowest of all rich countries. By contrast the child poverty rate in the United States comes close to a shocking 25 percent ... nearly a quarter of the entire population of children. Out of all the countries that UNICEF surveyed, the United States was actually next to last. Only Romania fared worse." the Nordic Theory of Everything, In Search of a Better Life: Anu Partanen

Abortion Bans Correlate With Children Losing Health Care Coverage (4/30/2024)

America Pulled Children Out of Poverty. Now It’s Set to Reverse Course With a Vengeance. (9/25/2023)

How to Ignore Childhood Poverty Without Having to Say You’re Sorry (11/2023)

Caution: Children at Work, The Return of Child Labor Is the Latest Sign of American Decline (7/6/2023) By Steve Fraser

Children and teens are more likely to die by guns than anything else (3/29/2023)

Alone and Exploited,Migrant Children work brutal jobs across the U.S. (2/28/2023)

‘It’s just crazy’: Republicans attack US child labor laws as violations rise (2/11/2023) Guardian

Child poverty rates highest in states that haven’t raised minimum wage (1/4/2023)

Congress Is Considering Financial Help for Parents. Here Are Details. (12/15/2022)

Virtually all children on Earth will face more frequent heatwaves by 2050 (10/25/2022)

The Leading Cause Of Death In Children And Youths Is Now Guns (4/18/2022)

Ron Johnson doesn’t believe the state should give help to parents – but he’s very keen to stop a woman’s right to choose (1/27/2022)

How Child Care Became the Most Broken Business in America (11/18/2021)

Children set for more climate disasters than their grandparents, research shows (9/26/2021)

Ministers of death: Republican governors leave kids 100% defenseless against delta surge (8/16/2021)

Links

Guns

Abortion

Red States

UNICEF

Protecting Children's Health and Safety

WE.org

Isaar Trust

Debtors Prison For Kids

Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood

Common Sense Media

Children's Environmental Health

Protect embryos worldwide? Critical to Republicans. Protect already-born children at our border? In Yemen where we support Saudi Arabia as it starves children? Or the rest of the world's children? Not important at all to Republicans (comment on a letter to the NYT)
The United States now has a vast and growing camp system. It is starting out with gruesome overcrowding and inadequate healthcare, and because of budget restrictions, has already taken steps to cut services to juvenile detainees. The US Office of Refugee Resettlement says that the mounting number of children arriving unaccompanied is forcing it to use military bases and other sites that it prefers to avoid, and that establishing these camps is a temporary measure. But without oversight from state child welfare inspectors, the possibilities for neglect and abuse are alarming. And without any knowledge of how many asylum-seekers are coming in the future, federal administrators are likely to find themselves boxed in to managing detention on military sites permanently. ‘Some Suburb of Hell’: America’s New Concentration Camp System

Child Poverty in the U.S. (2/5/2021)

GOP Child Protection
The practice of separating families amounts to arbitrary and unlawful interference in family life, and is a serious violation of the rights of the child. While the rights of children are generally held in high regard in the US, it is the only country in the world not to have ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. We encourage it to accede to the Convention and to fully respect the rights of all children. U.N. Human Rights office to United States: End policy separating immigrant children from parents at border (6/5/2018)

Endangering Generations, How the Trump Administration's Assault on Science is Harming Children's Health (2/11/2020)

The White House Is Quietly Deporting Children (6/22/2020)

Why Does America Hate Its Children? (1/15/2020)

U.S. Has World’s Highest Rate Of Children In Detention: U.N. Study (11/18/2019)

The U.S. has held a record 69,550 migrant children in government custody in 2019 (11/12/2019)

Trump’s Concentration Camps for Children (8/23/2019)

What a Pediatrician Saw Inside a Border Patrol Warehouse (7/3/2019)

I’ve Been to Guantanamo. It’s No Place for Kids.

Inside a Texas Building Where the Government Is Holding Immigrant Children (6/22/2019)

We Are Choosing to Kill Children in the Camps (6/21/2019)

Shutdown the Homestead Detention Center

'I REALLY DON'T CARE, DO U?'

"Finland’s child poverty rate at less than 5 percent, the lowest of all rich countries. By contrast the child poverty rate in the United States comes close to a shocking 25 percent ... nearly a quarter of the entire population of children. Out of all the countries that UNICEF surveyed, the United States was actually next to last. Only Romania fared worse." the Nordic Theory of Everything, In Search of a Better Life: Anu Partanen
...sending kids to Guantanamo is uniquely dangerous. It’s easy to imagine the Defense Department restricting or totally denying journalists, lawyers, and human rights groups access to monitor or investigate, enabling officials to commits abuses with little risk of being discovered. Members of Congress, who’ve already been refused access to visit detention facilities on the mainland, may have little or no ability to conduct effective oversight at Guantanamo. Kids sent to Guantanamo might be put in expedited removal proceedings (deported without the opportunity see a judge) that we’ve explained “invite, and guarantee, error.” The Trump administration might argue they have no rights at Guantanamo at all. I’ve Been to Guantanamo. It’s No Place for Kids.
Last month, I visited the Homestead detention center in Florida, a notorious, for-profit prison camp that's holding immigrant children, some of whom were snatched from their parents more than a year ago by Donald Trump's cruel family separation policy. It was chilling to see children, and so many of them, locked up in a remote prison camp. I talked with some of these children—children with fears and hopes for the future, awaiting the moment that they would be released from imprisonment and finally reunited with their families. Senator Jeff Merkley
"As Richard Wilkinson, coauthor of The Spirit Level, has said, “If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.” The Privatization of Childhood

Democrats have united around a plan to dramatically cut child poverty (5/2/2019)

America’s Dirty War on Immigrant Children (4/1/2019)

Pictures From Youth Climate Strikes Around the World (3/15/2019)

Ripping Suckling Babes From Their Mothers' Breasts: Trump's Border Porn (3/6/2019)

Separated Children Placed in Office of Refugee Resettlement Care (1/2019)

We Are Governed By Monsters Now (12/14/2018)

Your Tax Dollars Help Starve Children (12/9/2018)

13,000 migrant children in detention: America's horrifying reality, (10/1/2018)

An EPA children’s health official says Trump wants to “disappear” her office (9/27/2018)

U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials (7/9/2018)

Defense Contractors Cashing In On Immigrant Kids’ Detention (6/14/2018)

1,358 Children and Counting — Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” Border Policy Is Separating Families at Staggering Rates (6/8/2018)

Lawsuit Alleges Immigrant Children Were Forcibly Injected with Psychiatric Drugs (6/20/2018)

When Did Caging Kids Become the Art of the Deal? (6/18/2018)

The Trump administration’s separation of families at the border, explained (6/15/2018

How to Turn Children Into Criminals (5/30/2018)

The Cost of Keeping Children Poor (4/15/2018)

The NRA has been dropping ads in front of kids' toys videos on YouTube (3/26/2018)

Why America May Go To Hell (11/17/2017)

A Call To End Child Poverty (report from Children's Defense)

Key Documents on Marketing to Children

Ban on Advertising to Children Linked to Lower Obesity Rates. Catherine Musemeche, New York Times, July 13, 2013.

WHO Urges Tougher Food Marketing Rules To Curb Childhood Obesity. Kate Kelland, Reuters, June 18, 2013.

Limit Fast Food Advertising Toward Kids, Lower Childhood Obesity Rates. Deirdre Imus, Fox News, July 20, 2012.

How Food Ads Could Fuel Childhood Obesity. Fox News, November 30, 2012.

Commercials Are the Culprit in TV-Obesity Link. Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times, February 9, 2010.

TV Ads Contribute to Childhood Obesity, Economists Say. Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, November 20, 2008.

How Washington Went Soft on Childhood Obesity. Duff Wilson and Janet Roberts. Reuters, April 27, 2012.

Junk Food Nation: Who’s to Blame for Childhood Obesity. Gary Ruskin and Juliet Schor, The Nation, August 29, 2005.

Report Links TV Ads and Childhood Obesity. Marian Burros, New York Times, December 6, 2005.

Health Experts Call for Worldwide Ban on Marketing of Junk Food to Kids. Commercial Alert, February 27, 2004.

The Fast Food Trap: How Commercialism Creates Overweight Children. Gary Ruskin, Mothering magazine, 2003.

Bibliography

Separated, Jacob Soboroff

OUR KIDS: The American Dream in Crisis: Robert Putnam

Class War: The Privatization of Childhood by Megan Erickson

Childhood Under Siege - How Big Business Targets Children ...Joel Bakan

Child Neglect in Rich Societies: Silvia Ann Hewlett