The American Child Death Toll Is Mortifying
The American Child Death Toll Is Mortifying
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The American Child Death Toll Is Mortifying
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What a shithole country.
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This comment has been reported for civility.
I am leaving it
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It's practically presidential speech too!
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You are a people who treat themselves and others like trash. It doesn't have to be this way.
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Locally, Oklahoma DHS did not report a teen missing from a group home missing for THREE WEEKS. She turned up dead. I knew kids who ran away from their group homes to get medical care.
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And with all the states banning abortion now, there are going to be even more unwanted kids in the foster system. It fucking sucks.
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America just doesnt value life, across the board in every single category.
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only unborn…
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They want quantity over quality. You don't have to live a very long or good life as long as you are born
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This is the way it used to be. Cities didn't used to be able to sustain themselves through the birthrate alone; they were so toxic and dangerous that they would eat the populations within them, and needed a continuous flow of people from the countryside to sustain the population. Who would then, as the years went by, get fed into the maw and replaced in their turn.
Doing the whole country that way hasn't been tried before to my knowledge, but what the hell, we might as well be the first to give it a shot.
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Do you have any references for this? I only ask because "cities are dangerous shitholes" has been a talking point of reactionaries for a long time.
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Hm... maybe I am wrong. It's definitely not just a conservative talking point, it was how historians looked at early modern cities for a while, I thought. But it seems like modern historians aren't sure that's the case:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2598176
With just a quick look around, I couldn't find anything that seemed definitive in the other direction, but also, the little preview that shows of that paper seems like it does a pretty good job of saying "Yo the reasons they said this is true are incredibly weak when you dig into them." So maybe it was just premodern science from the leeches-and-ECT days.
There's also this. Deaths are exceeding births in almost half the US, now:
https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/deaths-exceeded-births-nearly-half-us-counties-last-year
(And, of course, it's mostly in the rural areas)
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True - but mostly in the distant past.
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In my case, it happened when my son was just six months old and I learned that the supposedly “organic” baby food pouches that he was addicted to were, in fact, chock full of carcinogenic heavy metals that have been linked to numerous neurological disorders, including autism.
... I'm immediately more skeptical of this.
Found the link to the study in the article for those who wanna go to the source: https://cdn.wildapricot.com/220571/resources/Documents/Jama_Child%20Mortality.Forrest_2025_oi_250043_1751296932.04615.pdf not sure if it supports the premise yet.
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Do these other developed nations have the same level of inequity and blind eye to gun violence in their ghettos I mean urban areas too?
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Did you know that your post, if copied exactly as written into a search engine, would yield a factual answer to your question?
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But... but ... The children!! ✝️
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Life is cheap in the USA.
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American hubris coming home to roost.
You were warned.
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The U.S. government has made it pretty fucking clear that children's lives don't matter.
And I mean like really rubbed our noses in it, like a dog that shit on the carpet.
A child only matters to a repugger before they're a child—not born yet. After that? "Go fuck yourself".
Come on, Republicans LOVE children! There's a whole stack of suspiciously guarded files to prove it!