We are Talking About Children

Somehow, issues concerning children who are abused, neglected, abandoned, jailed, trafficked, homeless — they don’t garner much attention amidst all the noise. And nothing is as insidious. Or as rampant.

Or as eroding to the fabric of our society and our communities.

Child abuse costs our nation $2 TRILLION dollars a year.

And you hear about pretty much every other kind of social ill.

Each of those issues are important.

But we are talking about children here. 

Two hundred and ninety-three children ran away from foster care in West Virginia in 2002. If they are ever found, it's living in abandoned trailers, houses, or cars.

But this doesn't happen in West Virginia only.

In the past 20 years in the United States of America, the cases of over 100,000 missing foster children were closed before the children were located. Some cases were closed as quickly as six months and on children as young as 9.

Did you know that?

It's early days for us at the Child Rights Foundation. We applaud other groups and individuals speaking and working on behalf of the the nearly 500,000 children in foster care and the millions of abused and neglected who have yet to be rescued.

But until these horrific stories subside, we can't move on to the next cause. Or, to anything else.

Get on our email list and join our new efforts. 

Or email me at paul@paulmartin.org. I’d love to meet you.