HILLARY AND CHILDREN WTF
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Hillary Rodham Clinton has served on the Board of Directors of the Children’s Defense Fund.
Hillary Rodham Clinton made the above contributions to the professional literature more than a decade ago.
What has happened since the publication of these papers ?
Like many women in modern America Hillary Rodham Clinton has had to balance her personal and professional life. What began with a remarkable contribution to legal scholarship at a young age has shifted to a balance between raising a family and continuing her work on behalf of children, along with trying to hold down a legal career and obtaining a partnership in a major law firm.
During the last several years Hillary Rodham Clinton has served on the Board of Directors of the Children’s Defense Fund, and serving as chair for several years. Under her leadership the Children’s Defense Fund has become what many regard as the most important and successful nonpartisan research and advocacy organization for children in the United States.
In spite of her work with the Children’s Defense Fund, the last dozen years have been quiet and uneventful in terms of progress for children. The great hope and expectation of the 1980s did not materialize.
On the federal level, the last ten years have been a decade of inaction. Programs for children operated at the federal level have been slowly dismantled.1 As the research published by the Children’s Defense Fund and other children’s advocacy groups have pointed out, it has been a decade of decline for children.
As mentioned earlier, in 1977 it was estimated that almost 500,000 children were in foster care but that, as a result of the achievements of the permanency planning movement, the numbers had been reduced to about 250,000 in the early 1980s. The most recent figures indicate that the number of children in foster care has almost doubled and is now approaching 500,000.
This compares to Japan, with a population about half the size of the United States, which has less than 3,000 children in foster care. During the last dozen years the number of reports of child abuse and neglect have increased by more than 150 percent (from 1,1.54,000 in 1980 to more than 2,500,OOO in 1991).
///////////////////////The rate of child abuse and neglect reports in the United States is many times higher than any other industrialized nation in the world. /////////////////////
The rate is more than ten times higher than Canada, just across the border and magnitudes higher than Germany, Italy, France, Japan and other industrialized countries. As documented by the Children’s Defense Fund, the number of children living in poverty in the United States stopped going down and has begun increasing (Johnson, Miranda, Sherman, & Weill, 1991). Children now represent the single highest category of people in poverty. In the United States more than ten million children live in poverty, an increase of more than a million in the last decade. Almost five million children live in households with less than one half the poverty line income. Perhaps most staggering of all is the situation of young black children in the United States. Almost two out of every three black children born in the U.S. will be born to single unwed mothers, most of whom live in severe poverty.