And child poverty is not an act of God. It is only a reflection of society's political, economical and value choices. America is such nation. The poverty rate among children in America today is enormous.
Malnutrition is unbelievably high and just getting worse and worse.
The same is true with infant mortality. It's unique in the civilized world. According to the latest statistics on poverty in the United States, released in 1996 by the U.S. Census Bureau, 14.3 million children in America are living in abject poverty. And it is the direct consequence of the official U.S. social policies. The steadily rising trend of child poverty in this country first of all is the fruit of a capitalist economic system itself, but also it is the result of society's inadequate spending on children.