Name: The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation
Author: Marian Wright Edelman (Author)
ISBN: 9781401323332

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The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation

Author(s): Marian Wright Edelman (Author)

Publisher: Hyperion
Publication Date: September 23, 2008
Language: English
Print length: 176 pages
ISBN-10: 1401323332
ISBN-13: 9781401323332

Book Description

In America today, the gap between the rich and the poor is the greatest ever recorded -- larger than any other industrialized nation. It has become far too easy to ignore the hardships of millions of children plagued by poverty, poor health, illiteracy, violence, adult hypocrisy, and injustice. As founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman knows all too well the suffering of so many of our nation's children, who live every day with adversity most of us can barely imagine. In The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small, Edelman asks difficult questions about what we truly value, and looks hard at what we can -- and must -- do to build a nation fit for all children. With the passion and conviction that have made her our leading child advocate, she calls us all to stand up for the future of America. What have we done and what have we left undone? What lessons can we learn from our past and our present to realize a just and peaceful national and world vision for our children and grandchildren?

Marian Wright Edelman challenges all of us -- our leaders, our teachers, the faith community, parents, grandparents, and future generations--to end the epidemic physical and spiritual poverty afflicting millions of our children. We can leave our children with a better, safer, and fairer world if we care enough. And we can -- and must -- do it now.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

To the frequently asked question—What’s wrong with today’s children?—Edelman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, responds with a resounding “Adults are what’s wrong with our children.” She follows up her best-seller, The Measure of Our Success (1992), with another impassioned plea for adults to do something about the crushing hardships faced by too many American children. In each chapter, Edelman addresses letters to parents, teachers, neighbors, community leaders, and others, outlining the issues of poverty, illiteracy, neglect, and abuse that children face and how adults can ameliorate the suffering of children. In the chapter aimed specifically at the kind of poverty that feeds children directly into prison, the “Cradle to Prison Pipeline,” Edelman offers a nine-step program, including increasing tax relief for poor families, broadening early childhood education programs, and reforming the juvenile justice system. Following the format of her previous book, she addresses an encouraging, loving, and inspirational letter to her grandchildren and the generations of children born along with them and to come after. Edelman intersperses devastating statistics (black women in the U.S. are more likely to die from complications of pregnancy or childbirth than mothers in Turkmenistan) with passionate arguments—and sound policy ideas—for eliminating poverty and achieving racial and social justice. An inspirational and practical perspective on ameliorating childhood poverty. --Vanessa Bush

From the Author

Marian Wright Edelman is the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, and eight other books. She is the winner of many awards for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, a Heinz Award, and a Niebuhr Award. In 2000, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings. Edelman is a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School. She and her husband live in Washington, D.C., and have three children and four grandchildren.

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The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation

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