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Children are the single most powerless segment of our population. They cannot support themselves, they cannot vote. Physically, they are not very strong. They know very little about the world. They are entirely dependent on the kindness and charity of adults. And every year tens of thousands of children are the subject of some type of legal proceeding in courthouses across the state of South Carolina. Whether they are in court because they have been the victims of abuse or neglect, or whether they are in court because of delinquency, court involved children are disproportionately and dramatically children of poverty and children of color. These children cannot speak for themselves. They cannot fight for themselves, and their families cannot afford to pay anyone to speak or fight for them.
What are the issues that are most pressing or seem most relevant to our children? How can our communities emerge with a single collective voice for our young people? This blog is based on the idea that the communities of our state will become all they can be only when we begin to collectively address the unmet legal and social needs of our children. Hopefully, this will be a place where the community can begin to participate in a conversation about those needs and about how they can best be met.
Learn more about the author of this blog, R. Michael Ethridge
