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to propagate
any further the delusion that children are poor.

Children are not poor.

Children are children.

A child's wealth is the depth and breadth of interest and attention and
caring and discipline and time (not quality time but quantity time)
which is given to it by its parents with an eye to shaping it into a
worthwhile adult.

Children are not poor.

Single mothers are not poor.

People in Thailand are poor. People in Malaysia are poor. People in Iraq
are poor. People in San Salvador are poor.

As a single mother, you are merely less indescribably wealthy than you
would like to be. Which -- considering that it was your own series of
unwise choices which brought you to the situation in which you find
yourself -- seems somewhat less a cause for either hand-wringing anxiety
or --give 'til it hurts-- generosity which you seem always to think are
the only two appropriate reactions to yourself and to your --better off
than 90% of the world's population-- circumstance.

I am a firm believer in the Islamic notion that the community has a
right to a specific share of each individual's accumulated wealth --
quite apart from whatever share is accounted for by taxes. There is no
direct


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