The Time Bomb
The book's message, "Defend the Children of the Poor & Punish the Wrongdoer", has many meanings on many levels. Extracts from chapter 27, "Group, Control & Chaos Theory":
In the first study of child well-being across the world's industrialised nations...the United Nations children's organisation UNICEF ranked the UK twenty-first and last and the US second to last. Of the findings, the Children's Commissioner for England said: “We are turning out a generation of young people who are unhappy, unhealthy, engaging in risky behaviour, who have poor relationships with their family and their peers, who have low expectations and don't feel safe.”
The UK and US have powerful legal and law enforcement systems and high prison populations. They both fiercely embrace free market capitalism. However, the quality of life for ordinary people is undoubtedly better elsewhere. It does look as if the Anglo-Saxon elite on both sides of the Atlantic are benefiting at the expense of the public. The prison population statistic speaks volumes. As does Britain's European league positions on teenage pregnancy rates and the like. There seems to be something fundamentally wrong with the Anglo-Saxon model, particularly in its treatment of children. The following article adds to that conclusion:Every five hours a child dies from abuse or neglect in the US....In fact, America has the worst child abuse record in the industrialised world. Sixty-six children under the age of 15 die from physical abuse or neglect every week in the industrialised world. Twenty-seven of those die in the US — the highest number of any other country. Even when populations are taken into account, Unicef research from 2001 places the US equal bottom...on child deaths from maltreatment.
Some attribute these problems to the dog-eat-dog mentality that pervades society. It seems those with connections protect their children from the pit while the poor are left to fight for the scraps and the weak turn on their own offspring. Given that adult behaviour is linked to childhood experiences, then there is a time bomb of sorts ticking ever louder.
Published on December 18, 2012 06:43
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