Disagree.
2006-08-25 16:22:29
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answered by Canadian Ken 6
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Getting kids off the streets has to do with the parents. Seeing kids thru school ALSO has to do with the parents. And i mean ParentS. 2 of them. Why? BEcause this task is usually too hard for one. Why must they both be poarents? Because theyre usually who the kid will listen to the most. Someone outside of the family will always be a stranger compared to who sleeps ion the same home.
Children in other countries may not have as much money as even those on welfare in america have. In america welfare famalies have 1) color tv, 2) cable & phone 3) food 4) transportation usually. where the middle class in some countries can barely get a tv, and fefinately not afford any channels besides the 2 or 3 free wave programming.
Those kids work harder, as they have more to gain. 10 hours of school per day is better than being at a home with nothing to do. Goal oriented. Family oriented.
Here in america its fun oriented. No work, all fun. No need for goals, proggress, or sacrifice.
2006-08-25 15:22:12
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answered by kool_rock_ski_stickem 4
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Some kids in some countries don't have a choice. I am sure starving kids in India would love to have what we have. But there are many other kids in many affluent countries who have many choices. Not every kid in America has a "choice" anyway.
My father runs a chapter of an organization called Family to Family. Every month families around the neighborhood pack up boxes of food and send it to families in a town called Pembrooke, 70 miles south of Chicago. They don't have a bank, supermarket, police force, barbershop, gas station, bookstore, and pharmacy.
Pembroke has no bus or train connection. Its roads are mostly paved with sand or gravel. Many of its homes are crumbling shacks with dirt floors and no running water. Some homes feature tires up top to keep the roof from flying off.
It sucks for kids in other countries and of COURSE we should try and help. But there are so many people in our country who need help as well.
2006-08-25 15:24:48
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answered by . 5
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ALL children need a helping hand.
As for children having a choice, Does a child of incest have a choice? Does a homeless child have a choice? Does the child of a drug addict have a choice?
Maybe they can choose to run away? Maybe they can choose to tell and find themselves in and out of foster homes that might be as bad or worse?
Ask a child in trouble what they think their choices are.
2006-08-25 15:38:07
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answered by hazydaze 5
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That is so American of you. You ask a question comparing American youth to the youth of the world and state that only American opinions need to answer.
America needs to look around at the rest of the world and figure out how things work in other cultures THEN and only then can they make the best choice for them.
When comparing the age of other countries of the world to the United States of America; well you would fall in around the teen years.
2006-08-25 15:28:55
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answered by kid_flav 3
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I believe that the current administration has made it so bad on the poor that there are many children here who are rapidly approaching the state of children in some third world countries. When you hear a person talking about "those bleeding hearted liberals," you know that you are listening to an assinine person who only cares about himself and his money with no regard to human life and suffering. Ain't it time for a change?
Love, Hope, & Peace,
Cal-el & Swissy
2006-08-25 15:25:38
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answered by Prodigal Son 4
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You have time to help kids at home and kids in other countries at the same time.
2006-08-25 15:22:45
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answered by Anonymous
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He gets paid to talk to these kids who knows maybe he's making them happy leave well enough alone
2006-08-25 15:22:49
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answered by sugarbdp1 6
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Charity starts at home.
2006-08-25 15:22:37
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answered by mad_mav70 6
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