In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.
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I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.
Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world.
Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.
I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.
Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.
It isn't unusual to see children climb into a car every morning to be ferried to the front door of a school that's just a few blocks away.
We take our children everywhere we go. I don't believe in having them and then leaving them to someone else to bring up.
Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.