Who Are Helping the Children In Need?
By vmenard
@vmenard (895)
United States
December 15, 2007 11:37pm CST
I try to make sense of the suffering that occurs in the world, more specifically the suffering that occurs in this country. (The US) There are children growing up in homes with unfit parents. There are children without enough food to eat. There are children who are cold, because there is no heat in the house.
How can a country so rich with resources forsake the children in need, this country's future?
2 responses
@Lybra2266 (96)
• United States
16 Dec 07
I have one son born unto me... and three others, that were homeless, and in need of a mother figure. I stepped in, and have shown them love, and home, and life as a mother would, but, their mothers never would.
Not only have I witnessed the suffering of American children, but also how readily the system attempts be rid of them. There is no support for children whose mothers simply don't care. I was not even able to enroll them into school, because "mom" refused to find the paper work, or take the time to invest in the futures and education of her own children.
My boys (my "homeless ones) have been failed desperately by the system... and I am the only mother that cries by their sides as their lives are stolen by the very system that claims to protect them... and I stay awake nights, with their broken dreams on my mind, while they "serve time" for being alone in the world and doing what they must to survive. God forbid that one should miss a court date, even if they are to young yet to drive and cannot find a ride... and the world forsake them if the haven't the right words, or money for a lawyer that cares.
So, now my homeless one, are safe in their beds, and locked up like animals behind bars... but, at least I know they are warm.
I begged the state, the counselors, and whomever I could to help me help these children who struggle on their own in the hood... nothing anyone would or could do... from the beginning they were doomed... and that is just the facts of the world that does not listen.
@nichole1983 (1187)
• Canada
16 Dec 07
cause they have a budget.. they only can save so many children... and with their dollar paring with the canadian dollar they are kinda in a loss of words.. you have to remember when they get a budget they have so much for each program that they offer, children, the homeless, roads, streets, highways.


