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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | June 24, 1996 issue

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This article presents the author's views on child welfare policy adopted by political parties in the U.S. and its comparison with other countries. He emphasizes that in countries very much poorer than the U.S., researchers can lake a child at random out of a school-room, look at its calcium and growth rate and literacy level and in general run the rule over it and still be unsure from what social class it originally came. Its parents' sins and failures and shortcomings, in other words, either do not fall on the innocent or do not have the sanction of society in doing so. In the richest society in the history of the human race, it is laughably easy to tell a child's social background from the simplest nutritional or educational test.

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POLITICAL parties -- United States; CHILD welfare; PUBLIC welfare policy; PUBLIC welfare -- United States; GOVERNMENT policy; LITERACY; UNITED States
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