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...speaks for kids?" the answer is, Everyone should [NATION, June 3]. Would we rather pay for effective schools or ineffective prisons? Obviously, schools that work. Would we rather pay for free immunization or long-term medical care? Again, the answer is obvious and apolitical. Applause for Marian Wright Edelman and the Children's Defense Fund! LITA LINZER SCHWARTZ Wyncote, Pennsylvania...
...longer the media, including TIME, continue to hold up the likes of Edelman and Hillary Clinton as icons of child protection, the longer it will take to help the children who need it. This country does not require a government to raise its children, nor does it need re-heated, polarizing programs from the '60s. It does need to recognize and learn from the vast majority of parents, from those at all levels of society who put their children first every day. Co-opting children into yet another special-interest class with a march on the capital is exploitative...
...Edelman has long been my personal hero. No one would argue with the fact that the needs of all children are increasingly not being met. Where we get mired in the muck of politics is in finding solutions to the problems. My first commitment is to my own children, then to the kids in my neighborhood and extended family, then to those in my children's schools, then to youngsters in the wider community. If we can all think of ourselves as casting a stone that makes ripples in a pond, we can make a difference in our Stand...
Politicians are not invited on Saturday, though. They would only obscure what Edelman, a veteran of many marches, sees as this event's main goal: to inspire the heady awareness--found in the civil rights campaigns and the antiwar movement--that individuals can change the world...
...Reported by Melissa Ludtke with Marian Wright Edelman, Ann Blackman and Ann M. Simmons/Washington, and Tammerlin Drummond/Miami