Dilemma of the Children

And, speaking of children, the GOP wants to increase
the number of unwanted children in America at the same
time that the number of African AIDS orphans is
reaching millions - these are children who will grow
up without family ties, without values, without
knowing love or even nourishment - many of these kids
live on the streets and are on their own trying to
keep themselves alive and raise little sisters and
brothers, and THESE KIDS are susceptible to the
encouragement of anyone who comes along and promises
them an improved life.

My fear is that these AIDS
orphans will grow into the next militias and
terrorists, groups who will offer them things they never had
like a home, food, a group to belong to, and guns.
And why wouldn't they join? No one is caring for these
millions of children, they are raising themselves. We
should be throwing money and support programs to
Africa to help these children develop morals and
values and assimilate into their culture, and we're
ignoring them at our peril.

I'm not sure that the world's history has ever seen
what is going to happen when this generation of
unaffiliated and unsocialized children grows up.

At the very least, if I was a student of psychology or
sociology I'd be very interested in studying an entire
generation of orphaned children.