Children are neglected by The West. I can't imagine a childhood without books.

Nearly four million British children do not own a book, says survey (click title to entry - thank you)

...This survey was based on a smaller number of children, around 8,000 in total. The report also reveals that boys are more likely to be without books than girls, and children eligible for free school meals - a measure of poverty - are more likely to not own a book than their richer peers.

The findings show that children who own books are more likely to enjoy reading, read more books and read more frequently and for longer. They are also more likely to perform better at school and to have visited a library or bookshop.

Just 7.6% of pupils who have books of their own are reading below the expected level, compared to 19% of those that do not own books, the report found. Researchers also concluded that 75% of children who read nine or more books a month read above the level expected of them, compared with 28.6% of those who read no books in a month....

For those familiar with this concept of illustrating the demographics of a country, it is easy to discern there are approximately 7 million children in the United Kingdom between the ages of zero to fourteen years old.  That would mean more than half of the children don't own a book.  And the worst of it is that Cameron was attempting to close libraries for austerity measures.  Children are the still yet another tragedy of Wall Street.