Speaking up for children of this country

My heart goes out to the children who are caught up in our adult problems: migrant children separated from families and abused at the southern border; Palestinian children in Israeli jails and in the March of Return, Nigerian girls kidnapped from their schools; Yemeni and Syrian children starving and dying from blockades and airstrikes and American children at Sandyhook and Parkland schools, to name a few recent massacres in our country.

Of course, with the present administration, more American children may go without food and healthcare as budget cuts are being proposed. The numbers of childr...