Saturday, January 09, 2010

Some of the most impoverished in the USA are migrant workers. They have families.



But, the esteem of these families are maintained through compassion. The children are required to attend school. They are also allowed time off from school when their family responsibilities require them to help earn money for their survival.

The families are held responsible for the return of their children to school to further their education, otherwise the children are removed from those families. The families are held responsible for any violence within the household. In the USA we call it domestic violence. It isn't allowed. Children often learn what they live.

California has an excellent model for intervention with these communities. I know the state government is crying poverty itself, but, so is every other state in the nation. It needs to increase revenues and not by cutting services. But, that is another topic entirely.

The point is the USA is a leader in the global community and it needs to assist other nations with solutions to problems that used to plague the USA. This 'recovery' of the youth of Islam is not as difficult as it might seem. It is what is 'allowed' by the government and the 'benevolence' of that government while enforcing its laws and social values of morality defined in decency.