Child Poverty in America - Marian Wright Edelman

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/27/Marian_Wright_Edelman_A_Course_for_the_Next_Generation

Children's Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman criticizes child poverty rates in America, using the image of a family with six children who only care for five.

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Marian Wright Edelman talks about her new book The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation.

The founder of the Children's Defense Fund looks back on what has been done, and what needs to be done, to make the nation and world safe and fair for all children. - Book Passage

Marian Wright Edelman was born in and grew up in Bennettsville, South Carolina, one of five children. In 1963, after graduating from Yale Law School, Marian Wright Edelman worked first in New York for the NAACP Legal and Defense Fund, and then in Mississippi for the same organization. There, she became the first African American woman to practice law. During her time in Mississippi, she worked on racial justice issues connected with the civil rights movement, and she also helped get a Head Start program established in her community.

During a tour by Robert Kennedy and Joseph Clark of Mississippi's poverty-ridden Delta slums, Marian met Peter Edelman, an assistant to Kennedy, and the next year she moved to Washington, D.C., to marry him and to work for social justice in the center of America's political scene. They had three sons.As part of the efforts of Marian Wright Edelman and the Children's Defense Fund on behalf of children, she has also advocated pregnancy prevention, child care funding, health care funding, prenatal care, parental responsibility for education in values, reducing the violent images presented to children, and selective gun control in the wake of school shootings.

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[anyname666]

another gas bag know nothing

Sister of Maxine Waters

some how get to be on a podium and without a thought in their heads just ramble on

[writersblock26]

Thank you for posting this, ForaTv.

[batmanpronz]

@humanrights85 And how exactly does that absolve a parent from consciously creating another child without a thought to its physical and emotional needs? I've scheduled a consult for a vasectomy next week and will be getting it if the urologist decides not to be a moron and send me to a psychiatric evaluation because of my age.

[batmanpronz]

It's really quite simple. Stop having kids you can't afford.

[SmartandHotMomOf3]

Then, I guess, Mr. or Ms. @Dipstikk, that all the families that I work with, that don't own a car, buy used clothes, have their children in public schools, but can't get the necessary school materials for, that don't have medical insurance because can't afford it.. the family of four that can only cook a meal of three or two portions, in which the children have only one very old toy... etc. etc. are these families unreal? maybe actors and actresses that pose as poor people?

[Dipstikk]

@anyname666 Lol.

[anyname666]

@Dipstikk

cluck cluck

but it is interesting that you know your limitations

and have absolutly no ammunition to make a case

[Dipstikk]

@anyname666 No.

[anyname666]

@Dipstikk

once again you have put me in my place

Let's hear your answer on THERE ARE NO STARVING PEOPLE IN AMERICA