They Are Failing The Poor Children Under Descrimination

When I was a child growing up on the countryside of a third world country, we did not have much. Life was simple, naive, and parents took care of their children with the little they possessed. We felt loved and ready for success. Today in the most advanced society in the world, so many parents are not able to raise their kids, and governments are more quick than needed to step in to often worsen matters. They are failing the poor children under discrimination; so many are ever remained marred in a system of stagnation that reproduces itself with no light at the end of the tunnel.

The United States where we are living possesses the capacity to make life better for all its inhabitants. The children particularly could be cared for normally and offered a prosperous future. Unfortunately, this is not what has been happening. A great majority of children has been abandoned to poverty, discrimination, parents who cannot adequately care for them, and a system of government that often worsens matters. Poverty is bad. When you poor and cannot provide what your children need, you cannot decide what their futures would be. Since we are living in a rich country, we are asking ourselves what is going on? How could a particular group of people be so poor and abandoned? We know! The rich get richer; the poor get poorer. Then we may say. There is discrimination. Yes, discrimination! This country has enough resources for all children here to be raised adequately and for prosperity. But, you have rich and poor, black and white, and the others.

Now, the poor parents have not been able to raise their children well because they are poor. Also, many other factors are complicating things for these poor parents: drugs, domestic violence, single parents, and incarceration are a few on the top of my head. How could matter be improved? The government is the answer. Right? Watch out! Child welfare or DCF, as it is called where I am, is at your doorstep. Don’t touch that child! You are even afraid to sometimes bathe your child for fear of sexual accusation. With all these complications we are leaving it to the state that knows best. They come and haul your child away. Well, maybe they leave him with you – with their microscopic eyes watching.

It’s usually a lost cause, with the children ended up worse than where they started. So many young black men are in prison! So many have not graduated from school! So many ended up dead! They say it is black inferiority; it is black on black crime; it is gang; it is drugs; and on and on. Was it bad parent or bad parenting? Obviously no! It is rather a system where poor people under discrimination are fixed-up for failure. Rich people, those who have some means and those not so much discriminated upon, they are not so subjective to this. Some other poor ethnic groups may be affected similarly. By any mean, the United Sates could go and fix up Europe and Japan and police the world. Yet, the poor black people here are living in shame. For those who may think that it is their faults, go back to the history of slavery.

I return to my village. Life has evolved too. You don’t have DCF to take your child from you of course, but things have changed. Yet, I could tell you one thing. Simple value measures still work: love, importance of education, family orientation and support, and keep your child away from the bad apples. Most of us not on drugs and not in prison could still set good examples. Please, don’t abuse your children. 

By E.C. GRANMOUN
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