Global Child Death said:
"A disproportionately heavy burden of child deaths weighs on families in eastern and southern Africa. Every day 5,500 children under the age of five die across the 21 countries of the region and the majority of the deaths are largely preventable." ~
5 500 children die in Eastern and Southern Africa every day Press centre UNICEF
"Over a million African babies are estimated to die in the first 4 weeks of life..." ~ (PDF Report)
http://www.who.int/pmnch/media/publications/aonsection_I.pdf
"The silent killers are poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related causes. Despite the scale of this daily/ongoing catastrophe, it rarely manages to achieve, much less sustain, prime-time, headline coverage." 21,000 die every day ~
Today around 21 000 children died around the world Global Issues
"Every 15 seconds a child dies of hunger, says a campaign by charities urging G8 leaders to pledge more aid for the world's poorest families - or every 10 seconds, according to the latest version of the slogan. But does this paint an accurate picture?" ~
Does a child die of hunger every 10 seconds - BBC News
"Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a "terrible indictment of the world in 2007," the head of the U.N. food agency said." ~
18 000 children die every day of hunger U.N. says - USATODAY.com
"Nearly two million children a year die for want of clean water and proper sanitation while the world's poor often pay more for their water than people in Britain or the US, according to a major new report." ~
Dirty water kills 5 000 children a day Business The Guardian
Those have far more impact if it's just about babies dying.
But lets talk about the US's babies ~
More US babies die on their first day than in 68 other countries report shows - NBC News
“The United States has the highest first-day death rate in the industrialized world. An estimated 11,300 newborn babies die each year in the United States on the day they are born. This is 50 percent more first-day deaths than all other industrialized countries combined.”
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"Save the Children says it’s not precisely clear why the United States does so poorly in protecting newborns, but says politics and culture both play a role.
“Many babies in the United States are born too early. The U.S. preterm birth rate (1 in 8 births) is one of the highest in the industrialized world (second only to Cyprus). In fact, 130 countries from all across the world have lower preterm birth rates than the United States,” the report reads.
Teen births are partly to blame, the report says – echoing other research that has shown this. The U.S. has the highest teenage birth rate of any industrialized country.
“Teenage mothers in the U.S. tend to be poorer, less educated, and receive less prenatal care than older mothers. Because of these challenges, babies born to teen mothers are more likely to be low-birthweight and be born prematurely and to die in their first month. They are also more likely to suffer chronic medical conditions, do poorly in school, and give birth during their teen years (continuing the cycle of teen pregnancy),” the report says."
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“Poverty, racism and stress are likely to be important contributing factors to first-day deaths in the United States and other industrialized countries.”
The March of Dimes, a charity that focuses on healthy births, says infant mortality fell by 12 percent between 2005 and 2011, and premature births have fallen by 8.5 percent since 2006. "This rate reduction has meant 125,000 fewer premature births and an estimated cost savings of about $2 billion," the group said in a statement. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 24,586 U.S. babies died before they turned 1 in 2010, compared to 23,910 in 2011."
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"Half of all U.S. pregnancies are unplanned, another complicating factor, the report says. Women whose pregnancies are accidental are much less likely to take good care of themselves and to get thorough prenatal care, from vaccines to vitamins, that can protect the baby and her."
~ But ya know, who cares about the mother, who cares about the father, it's all about the unborn baby who /should/ have that chance to be abused while in the womb by a mother who wants nothing to do with them, then be born into a life of poverty and an inability for their parent(s) to care for them properly, if they even care to bother more than is necessary to keep CPS off their back.
Oh adoption right?
"In the 1990s, there are approximately 120,000 adoptions of children each year. This number has remained fairly constant in the 1990s, and is still relatively proportionate to population size in the U.S. 104,000 children were adopted in 1986, 53,000 of whom were related adoptions and 51,000 of whom were unrelated. In addition, approximately 10,000 children were adopted from abroad, bringing the total number of unrelated adoptions to 61,000." ~
Adoption Statistics Numbers Trends
Bing says that "Just over 4 million babies are born in the United States each year," if we presume half of them are unplanned, that's 2 million, figure the majority of unplanned children /are/ kept (well cared for or not) but... only 120,000 ish are adopted, not being able to have kids is a bit of a rarity. So who adopts these unwanted children? No one, they get stuck with the parent who didn't want them but "dealt with it," usually in poverty and often neglected and/or abused.
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Child Abuse Statistics Statistic Brain ~ 681,000 children annually are abused. CPS is involved/investigates in 3.3 million children per year. 80% of children who die from abuse are under the age of 4. Homeless youth that ran away to escape abuse %46. 80.9% of children are abused by a parent.
What's the solution? Failed abstinence policies, rejecting birth control, "hammering down" on abusive parents (after the fact of course) Are you all entirely /sure/ it's a "good" thing for the children to force women to have children they don't want?
