Noble: Who really cares? How shallow protests ignore chance for real change
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Poor children are victims of circumstance/ In life they never really get a chance/Or have opportunities as privileged children do/ The road from the poor suburb to prison leads them/ From broken homes they are condemned to fail/ Their abusive and drug-addicted parents serving time in jail/ Their parents too homeless in their teen years/ On no hope street no laughter only tears.’ — Francis Duggan (2008).
Photo: Poverty is a severe strain on family life.
In a period racked with national pain, it has been instructive to read both Professor Theodore Lewis (24 January) and Dr Lennox Bernard (11 February) in the Express newspaper. To understand and repair our national situation, we need to appreciate what they wrote. Should we read the columns, we would engage with the societal problems differently.