Sunday, August 5, 2018

We Can Do Better, Surely

One in five foster children become homeless when they "age out at 18 in South Carolina. About an equal percentage of female former foster kids become teen moms. Almost two-fifths go to prison. Almost that many are unemployed. Damn few go onto any form of college.

It's not only an American problem.

The United States is ranked 47th in the world for maternal mortality.

In the rest of the First World, this joke wouldn't make sense:



Surely we can do better.

1 comment:

  1. Yeah sure, 47th, but take that, Brunei Darussalam! (which I'm actually pretty sure is not a country but rather a character from "Dune.")

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