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...Edelman also said youths who have witnessed or been victims of violence are affected psychologically...
...Edelman said that 25 children are killed in the U.S. every two days. She said the number of children killed in 1991 was twice the number of soldiers killed in the Gulf War and Somalia combined...
...have met 10-year-old children who think constantly about death," Edelman said. Inner city youths "sometimes dream of reaching the age of 18, and some think that prisons are safer than the streets...
Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund, described violence as "the ugly, malignant disease that has devoured America and has spread to young children" in a speech last night to an audience of about 500 at the ARCO Forum...
Using statistics and anecdotes, Edelman, who spoke at last year's Class Day ceremonies, described the horrors of youth violence in the U.S. in her address, which was entitled "Children and Violence...