Re: In defence of the poor
Mate, right now I'm more worried about kids who I think have reasonably good parents. Being my kids. Not to mention the kids they hang around with whose parents are about as good or bad as us.<br /><br />Anybody can go wrong.<br /><br />To take one example, which I think I'm free from, drug use in wealthy,two parent families might be worse proportionately than in poor, single parent families. I don't know. I'll never find out for sure. Poor kids don't have the connections that avoid charges or convictions. The published figures might be skewed by factors that affect what gets published.<br /><br />People who have gone wrong can come good.<br /><br />I'm not a Christian but, as I've said in other posts on various topics, Christ's teachings are self-evidently commendable. I mention them because of the Christians who express their views on this board, but not always with the charity, compassion and understanding I'd expect of them.<br /><br />A couple of things at the heart of Christ's teachings (which Muslims accept, and so do Jews and other beliefs although not from the same source), which appeal to people like me on plain humanitarian grounds, are the notions that nobody is beyond redemption and that we should all seek to help people who have done wrong to redeem themselves. <br /><br />These things are for sure: <br /><br />- If we deny people who have stuffed up the opportunity to redeem themselves, they will be forced to the bad margins of society and will be a problem for all of us. <br /><br />-If we include people who are potential problems in the community and help them to become useful members of the community we shall all benefit.<br /><br />Those things are all simple, but not easy to do. Especially for the people whose lives we wish to change. <br /><br />If we don't do them, things will only get worse.
and it goes on and on<br /><br />but child B gets the shaft from day 1<br /><br />tommays