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Title: Lost Futures : Our Forgotten Children by Stan Grossfeld, Mother Teresa ISBN: 0-89381-696-5 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 30 April, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Heartwrenching -- Superb
Comment: I have owned this book for a few years and turn to it again and again. It is filled with photos in black and white of children from various parts of the world who are on their last legs. For me the most touching image is opposite a foreward from Mother Teresa. It is a picture of an Ethiopian mother and a beautiful child waiting for food in a refugee camp. The child is skin and bones. The love between the mother and child goes straight to the heart. The caption explains that the child died later that day. In her foreward, Mother Teresa says that the "children in these pictures speak to us." Indeed they do.
Rating: 5
Summary: a book of questions
Comment: Every child in these pictures asks questions. Why don't I have a home? Why do I live in a car? In this camp? Why is my mother crying? Why is everything broken? Why is the refrigerator empty? Why do I need help breathing? Why is the air so bad? Why did I die before I could grow up? Why am I in a coffin? Why are there so many coffins? Why must I be a prostitute? Who are these people who come to me? Who keeps the money? Who eats the vegetables I pick? Why do the chemicals make me sick? Who makes the money? Why is the only place I have to live in this sewer? Why do they rape me? Why do people think I'm bad because I sniff glue? Why do I have to work instead of going to school? Why did the soldiers try to kill me? Will my mother still love me even though I lost a hand? An eye? Why do I feel so good when I have this gun? Who paid for the gun? Who will I kill? Why ....?
Stan Grossfeld has mercy on us. The last two pages offer us ways to help these kids.
Read it. Meditate on it. Weep. Act.
Rating: 5
Summary: Enlightening and demanding of social action.
Comment: I must first begin with admitting that I have not read this book, yet I still believe that my thoughts are applicable. Over the summer of 1998 I was introduced to Mr. Grossfelds work in the form of a lecture/slide show. He revieled much of the content of the book and explained his views on the subjects at hand. After the show by instict all I could do was sit alone and question my life, my social awareness and action, and appreciate what a wonderful life I was born into.
The photographs of this book document the aspects of our world of which we are less proud. During times where we are advancing phenominally, these problems can not be ignored. The making of this book is one important step to recognizing and addressing these issues. I urge anyone with any hint of social awareness, any hint of compassion, to purchase this book. The profits contribute to worthy fondations which give direct aid and make direct changes in the lives of those who are less fortunate.
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Title: Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography Online by Philip Jenkins ISBN: 0814742629 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: Youth Involved in Prostitution, Pornography & Sex Trafficking by Laura A. Barnitz ISBN: 0966370929 Publisher: Youth Advocate Program International Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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