Word: braziller
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Children of Brazil...
Your report on the 16 million children of Brazil who must live on the streets of the cities [Sept. 11] should be required reading for all American schoolchildren. When children start cussing out their parents and wishing they were dead, they might be reminded that in Brazil their parents might have thrown them out on the street when they were only four...
...hope Pope John Paul I, a good and humble man, will have the vision to see across the waters to essentially Catholic Brazil, where "thousands of parents are forced to cast their offspring out like rubbish." When, because of the teachings of society or the church, individuals consider it more sinful to practice birth control than to dump young children into the street to steal, prostitute themselves or starve, something has to be wrong...
Carlos M. Villar, chief of operations in Brazil for the Interamerican Development Bank (IADB), plans to attend, seminars, audit economics and political science courses and write a paper...
What is to become of these outcasts? Already, about half the country's 110 million population is 19 years of age or younger. Some experts predict that within 20 years or so, Brazil will be burdened with millions of adults so undernourished, unskilled and uneducated that they will be impervious to any kind of civilizing process. Experts report that the signs of this prophecy are already unmistakable. With nothing to look forward to, the children indulge in delusions of a glorious future. Says a psychologist: "We have illiterate seven-year-olds who say they are going to be doctors...