Children's Rights - The Hungry Beast

“Love people and use things, rather than the opposite.”

The global economy is using our children to starve and punish children everywhere. [see Legal Exploitation list]

Children are regarded as merchandise in the heartless corporate world and as fuel to drive the economic engines of an interlocked economic system. I suggest that we should honestly ask ourselves if we want to continue to sacrifice children for goods, services and wealth.

How long will we cooperate with this financial and economic protocol?

Let me add that there are other ways to look at children, beyond the perception that they are a commodity to be exploited, a natural resource to create a luxurious lifestyle for an already over-endowed elite.

We can, we should and we must view them as people. In my faith children are the model by which we find God and to which we must aspire. They are, individually and altogether, more sacred to us than all of the cattle of India are to the people of that place.

We are simultaneously robbing them of hope. For hope is the future to which we aspire and for which we reach, knowing that things can and will improve. We are carving up and consuming all of the earth’s resources in one generation.

These resources should be viewed as the basis for life in every generation for endless generations to come. We are stealing their legacy and turning it into garbage of various kinds. And we are doing it at a head-swirling, dizzying rate.

We should love and care for and value our children as a sacred gift, rather than seeing them as a means to gain. And we should preserve the Earth that is God’s legacy to them.

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