The World's Children

From the book "You and Me Together" by Barbara Kerley, Marian Wright Edelman, President of the Children's Defense Fund writes:

"Why have we endangered so badly the hopes and lives of so many children?  What kind of world permits 38,000 children to die every day from preventable poverty-related causes?  What kind of world lets children and mothers die in violent wars and massacres?  What kind of rich nation like America lets a child be abused or neglected every 11 seconds; be born into poverty every 40 seconds; and be killed by guns every 3 hours?  We must never adjust to an unjust world which lets children die needlessly.  We must pray, persevere, and refuse to give up.  We must open our eyes and our hearts and energize and organize so that all children in all places in our borderless world - in Africa and South America, in Australia and Europe, in North America, and all over the world - have what they need.  Let us push our love beyond the children in our own homes to give all children a home in the world of our hearts." [bold added]