Hey wildchild,if my side agreed to end abortions would you and your side agree to raise taxes to pay for every child in America to live above the poverty line with a minimum standard of housing,healthcare,nutrition and education?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-s-is-among-the-worst-in-the-developed-world/
Child poverty in the U.S. is among the worst in the developed world
By Christopher Ingraham October 29, 2014
A man walks with two children outside the Poverello House homeless shelter Thursday, July 31, 2014, in Fresno, Calif. (AP Photo/Scott Smith)
The United States ranks near the bottom of the pack of wealthy nations on a measure of child poverty, according to a new report from UNICEF. Nearly one third of U.S. children live in households with an income below 60 percent of the national median income in 2008 - about $31,000 annually.
In the richest nation in the world, one in three kids live in poverty. Let that sink in.
The UNICEF report pegs the poverty definition to the 2008 median to account for the decline in income since then - incomes fell after the great recession, so measuring this way is an attempt to assess current poverty relative to how things stood before the downturn.
With 32.2 percent of children living below this line, the U.S. ranks 36th out of the 41 wealthy countries included in the UNICEF report. By contrast, only 5.3 percent of Norwegian kids currently meet this definition of poverty.
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Maybe some people should demonstrate personal responsibility and not have children if they cannot afford them.
I will also note that many of the children in poverty in the U.S. are from single moms who never were married to the father (or fathers) - nor does a male adult live in the household.
The child poverty situation would get much better in the U.S. with a dose of personal responsibility. Don't have children out of wedlock. Don't have children if you can't afford them. If you get a women pregnant then marry her. These are traditional values of society.
