Treasured Pearls: Does this make sense?

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Does this make sense?

Here in America, 17% of children (nearly 1 in 5!) are obese. http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/childhood/index.html
Yet 16,000 children die EVERY DAY due to malnutrition in the world. http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html

How is it that we have SO MUCH FOOD that our kids are OBESE yet kids overseas are DYING OF HUNGER!?!?!?! How can we as Christians sit idly by and allow this to happen? What are you doing about this?

If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother.
Deuteronomy 15:7 (New International Version)

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Orphan Statistics

Inter-country adoption has decreased 59 percent from its high in 2004, due primarily to restrictions by sending countries.
81.5 million Americans have considered adoption. If just 1 in 500 of these adults adopted, every waiting child would have a permanent family.
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The average waiting child is 7.5 years old.
Last year, nearly 9,000 children were adopted internationally
Of the estimated 238,280 children who exited foster care during 2013, the median amount of time spent in care was 21.8 months.
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http://showhope.org/9-stats-about-the-orphan-crisis/