Posted on 07/26/2004 6:21:13 PM PDT by Coleus
The family life, education and health of America's children are generally improving, though child poverty has risen for the first time in a decade, according to the government's broadest measure of children's well-being.
The report today by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics finds children are doing better for the most part. The teen birth rate is down, young people are less likely to be involved in violent crimes and the death rate for this group has declined.
Still, children are more likely to be overweight than they were before and child poverty has inched up after several years of decline, according to the report, which draws together findings from many federal agencies. The study paints a mostly upbeat picture. The teen birth rate -- steadily declining since 1991 -- hit a record low in 2002.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
The parents would have more money if they stopped buying so much food for their FAT children. These inner-city kids are so fat that many have Type II, adult-onset diabetes.
What poor people must do to fight poverty.
- graduate High School - marry someone with at least a high school diploma - marry before having children - when married, have children after the age of 23
These are the basics which I read about in the WSJ a few months ago.
"The parents would have more money if they stopped buying so much food for their FAT children."
They just want to be like the female Dim senators I saw on stage a half hour ago. WOW!!
Well, that tears it. Obviously, we need a Cabinet-level solution: The Office of National Fat-Ass Control Policy.
It's worked wonders with the ONDCP and every other successful alphabet agency... why not declare a War on Fat?
God knows, we can't solve a problem without letting government "fix" it for us.
The libs love to create a crisis, so they can use money and education to rescue us poor fools. The real problem here are words like obesity and poverty. The standards have changed so much over the years you have 140 lb women and 180 pound men classified as "obese" and anyone who makes less than 80,000 dollars a year as "poor"..
a couple of years ago, we were technically "under the poverty level" and yet owned 3 well maintained, running vehicles, owned our own home, sent one of our children to private school, and lived with all the "normal" comforts of American society. We were able to do that because we didn't bog ourselves down in credit card debt and only bought what we could pay for.
I live in an area of high welfare use/abuse and have seen many families on welfare using cell phones and owning fancy stereo systems and big screen tvs. The word poverty in this country is often a joke, to see true poverty you must go to India or South America or Mexico.
Initiative expanded to promote healthy eating and physical activity among children
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich today announced that 14 additional elementary schools have been selected to participate in an Initiative designed to promote good nutrition and exercise habits.
The program, called CATCH (Coordinated Approach to Child Health), began in January [2004] with six schools and eventually may be expanded to schools statewide.
"Obesity has become a critical health program for our children and, if unchecked, is on pace to become the leading cause of preventable death in this country," Blagojevich said. "As adults, we must teach our children how to lead healthier lives. To that end, I am pleased that we can expand this pilot program to additional schools so that other children will have the opportunity to learn how to make better food choices and to increase their activity level."
CATCH is a multi-component health intervention program, which builds an alliance of parents, teachers, child nutrition personnel, school staff and community partners to teach children and their families how to be healthy throughout their lives. It is targeted at students in third through fifth grade. [End of excerpt]
Are you serious?what about fat kids that have money and educated parents? What would you suggest for them?
And unlike the earlier post from someone else, they don't spend their money feeding their kids. They spend it on what you said: cellphones, hairdo's, new cars, stereos etc..they send their kids to the store to get very non-nutrious foods like chips, soda and candy.
Both problems are probably government induced.
Government pays people to be poor.
Government pushes a starch based food pyramid.
Government could go back to doing what it's supposed to do, basically, leaving everyone alone.
That is an excellent example of what I was referring to.
Are you serious?what about fat kids that have money and educated parents? What would you suggest for them? >>
The article was a correlation between poor kids and obesity and never mentioned children of financial means.
I suggest their parents purchase memberships for their kids in a health club or YMCA, hire a personal trainer and maybe a chef.
I'm presuming the govt. sanctioned this study because the taxpayers of America are somehow involved with govt. assistance and will most likely grow into unhealthy adults on Medicaid and Medicare which will be a future financial burden.
I didn't write the article, just posted it. You may want to write a letter to the editor at the star ledger or to your congressman for further info regarding obese rich children.
That's interesting that you read it like that. I read the article implied that children are getting fatter, poverty rates for children have increased, birth rates for teens have dropped and so forth. I never read that being fat was a direct result of being poor. Maybe you should contact the editor to have them correct the article so it can support your claim. Or have the people that commissioned the study clarify their results. You have made this article an issue of race baiting and unfotunately refuse to be enlightened on what you have done.
Citations from the article:
The report said Mexican-American boys were at the highest risk, with 27 percent overweight followed by black, non-Hispanic girls at 23 percent.
The child obesity issue is a major cause for concern, Alexander said. "This is a trend that's been at work since 1980 ... and as a trend, it shows no sign of reversing," Alexander said.
Child poverty also grew, reaching 11.6 million in 2002, compared with 11.2 million a year earlier.
The report today by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics >>
Federal, as I said, write your congressman.
True it stated stats on race, but where is the info that they are poor and fat? The report made a note to start a new paragraph and say poverty also grew, not: mexican and black kids are fat and poor. As I said before, since you want it to imply something that it does not, you write your congressman.
True it stated stats on race, but where is the info that they are poor and fat? >>>
Where it says poverty and obesity, the words are synominous; I suggest you buy a dictionary.
Are you a poor, fat, minority? I see nothing on your home page about yourself.
"synominous" A dictionary and a thesaurus would be appropiate for somebody, you just did not get the person correct. And I'll take any of the mentioned categories if it means I'm not associated with whatever you are.
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