America Is Dangerous for Kids

Michael Petit, president of Every Child Matters, writes that: “Over the past ten years, more than 20,000 American children are believed to have been killed in their own homes by family members. That is nearly four times the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

I went back to that article on the BBC website after reading another the other day entitled: “Who are the fifty-five bodies buried at the Dozier School?” It describes a real horror: “Within the past year, anthropologists working for the University of South Florida (USF) have exhumed the remains of fifty-five children on the grounds of the now-shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.” The rest of the story is a disturbing account of physical abuse at the reform school, which operated from 1900-2011. (In addition, such facts have to be laid out alongside the truly horrific statistics of abortions in the United States.)