We start at home. About 20 percent of U. S. children live below the poverty line, more than in seven other industrial countries. And it has grown consistently since 1979. That is one fifth of our children. White Americans, among whom incomes are almost twice that of Black people, have accumulated ten times as much wealth.
Children are worse off than adults.
Worse is just getting born in the first place. These figures are constant for the last decade. The surveys show that a majority of women had abortions because they felt a baby would interfere with their work or education, or that they could not afford to have a child. Roman Catholic women have an abortion rate equal to the American average of 3 per 100. Abortion rates for Protestant and Jewish women are 30 percent below the national average.