Surplus kids? Here's a solution! More on disposable youth (now not so young).

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Posted Tue, 11/17/2009 - 19:06 by Carolyne Ali Khan

It seems to me that the burden of youth always falls on the poor, while the rhetoric of "pure childhood" bleats on obliviously. History as we are usually fed it, paints the 50's as a time of "Leave it to Beaver" bliss, no less in England than in the U.S. But the sordid truth of how poor children have been treated reveals a very different picture. Once again it becomes apparent that childhoods happy narrative lives in the middle class, poor children are disposable. Until today I had not heard of this particular instance, 150,000 British children deliberatley deemed throwaways. On the one hand I am shocked.
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/apology-for-kids-shipped-198128.htm...
See Shirley Steinbergs insights for another vantage point on this story
http://www.freireproject.org/blogs/slavery-indenture-genocide-removal-ho...

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