Dear PRO LIFE AND FAMILY 'VALUES' Crowd

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hear a great deal of screaming about the right to life of a group of cells and how marriage rights for gays will end the world.

"Think of the children", you cry, yet, I see little little outrage nor positive suggestions on how to reduce child abuse. The US leads the industrialized world in abusing its children, do I hear a USA USA and seven pledges of allegiance?

Some low lights

*More than five children die every day as a result of child abuse.2
Approximately 80% of children that die from abuse are under the age of 4
It is estimated that between 50-60% of child fatalities due to maltreatment are not recorded as such on death certificates

Children who experience child abuse & neglect are 59% more likely to be arrested as a juvenile, 28% more likely to be arrested as an adult, and 30% more likely to commit violent crime.

And don't hop on your holier than thou horse just yet

Child abuse occurs at every socioeconomic level, across ethnic and cultural lines, within all religions and at all levels of education.

Yeah but, but its the evil governments fault

Texas prides itself in being a low tax, low service state. Its per capita income places it in the middle of the states, while its total tax burden - its willingness to tax itself - is near the bottom.

Gosh must be good, right?

Vermont, in contrast, is at the other extreme. It is a high-tax, high-service state.

Evil socialism is bad, bad bad....right?

In looking at key indicators of well-being, children from Texas are twice as likely to drop out of high school as children from Vermont. They are four times more likely to be uninsured, four times more likely to be incarcerated, and nearly twice as likely to die from abuse and neglect.

Ah but that's America, you know, other countries must be worse.

The child maltreatment death rate in the US is triple Canada's and 11 times that of Italy. Millions of children are reported as abused and neglected every year. Why is that?

I bet you haven't got a clue why, now do you?