Because I love the state with the highest infant mortality rate in the country, one of the highest premature birth rates, a steadily increasing child poverty rate well above the national average, where one in four children are at risk for hunger and malnutrition (50% above the national average), where the juvenile death rate is nearly 50% over the national average, where student proficiency in math and reading could jump 50% and barely scrape the national. From the moment of birth, kid, Alabama says you’re on your own. Where the official Bible quote could be “Suffer, the little children.”
Because I love the state with the highest infant mortality rate in the country, one of the highest premature birth rates, a steadily increasing child poverty rate well above the national average, where one in four children are at risk for hunger and malnutrition (50% above the national average), where the juvenile death rate is nearly 50% over the national average, where student proficiency in math and reading could jump 50% and barely scrape the national. From the moment of birth, kid, Alabama says you’re on your own. Where the official Bible quote could be “Suffer, the little children.”