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February 14, 2018
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Morally Dead and Leaves Vulnerable Children Behind
Trump’s address
was silent
on shameful
problems
M arian W right e delMan
As I listened to Pres-
ident Trump’s State of
the Union Address wait-
ing to hear even a kernel
of hope for our coun-
try’s most vulnerable
children I became more
and more distressed
and disgusted as these children’s
needs were once again left be-
hind along with the values of the
America and all great faiths that
so many of us love and respect.
The President’s address was
silent on the shameful problems
of homelessness, hunger, the lack
of poor quality early childhood
and educational opportunities,
needed reforms in our child wel-
fare and juvenile justice systems,
and the violence that plagues too
many children in their families
and communities that I laid out in
by
a letter urging him to address the
state of America’s children. This
silence is a national embarrass-
ment.
While the address included
a few broad brushstrokes that
might help improve the odds for
some children, at best these solu-
tions would fill only a very small
hole in the moral chasm
of child needs – help to
grow up healthy, safe,
educated and excited
about the future.
The President drama-
tized the horrible effect
of the opioid crisis that
is ravaging our country but failed
to commit to the urgently need-
ed investments necessary to help
babies and other children who
are its faultless littlest victims or
their families. He spoke about
getting tough on “drug dealers
and pushers” but was not clear
that pharmaceutical companies
or physicians contributing to the
crisis were targets. And there was
no attention – none – to the great
need for investments in treatment.
The President highlighted
important job growth but made
no mention of the critical need
for safe, quality and affordable
child care to enable parents to
take these jobs. The $1.5 trillion
in federal, state and local state
investments mentioned in infra-
structure improvements included
no recognition that today’s chil-
dren will form the core of tomor-
row’s workforce, but millions
– especially the more than 13.2
million living in poverty – need
significant investments in their
own futures before they can con-
tribute to our nation’s future.
Other references were grossly
at odds with the actual challeng-
es threatening children today.
The President’s pride that “we
are totally defending our Second
Amendment” ignored the fact
that most recent data show eight
children and teens killed by guns
every day. There was no sign of
a commitment to protect children
over guns.
Immigration was perhaps the
saddest discussion of all as we
see the lives of almost two mil-
lion young people with promising
futures and eager to contribute to
our land being held hostage for a
border wall and anti-family pol-
icies that threaten the safety and
stability of many seeking refuge
in our country – for most the only
country they know.
His comment that “Americans
are dreamers too” sowed more
ugly seeds of division and dissent
and his highlighting the tragic
MS-13 murders of two young
girls stoked the flames of hate
and fear that we have felt too of-
ten over the last year.
I urge the President and all
of us to recall Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.’s truth: “Darkness can-
not drive out darkness; only light
can do that. Hate cannot drive out
hate; only love can do that.” Pro-
tections for Dreamers in our land
– their land – must be preserved.
A nation that does not stand for
children does not stand for any-
thing and will not stand blame-
less before God when asked to
account for every sacred child en-
trusted to our care and protection.
Our nation’s children deserve
better. We all deserve better.
Marian Wright Edelman is
President of the Children’s De-
fense Fund.