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Jeremiah mentions turning mourning into joy and sorrow into gladness. Sometimes we want to skip immediately from the bad to the good. This is understandable, but is it wise? We might pause to think of the slaughter of the innocent boys when Jesus was born.
The May 31, 1991, issue of Time had on its front page "Crack Kids." Then it added, "Their mothers used drugs, and now it's the children who suffer." About one out of 10 babies born in the United States, or about 375,000 a year, have been exposed in the womb to one or more illicit drugs, most frequently cocaine. In such places as New York, Detroit, Los Angeles and Washington the percentage of babies affected by drugs is 20 percent or higher.
Yet even this is not simply a case of mourning and sadness. A study of Chicago found that of 300 cocaine-exposed babies who had intensive postnatal intervention at the age of three, 90 percent showed normal intelligence, 70 percent had no behavioral problems, and 60 percent did not need speech therapy. The Time report concluded, "Today's crack kids may be a troubled generation, but they do not have to be a lost generation --unless society abandons them."
--Richardson
The May 31, 1991, issue of Time had on its front page "Crack Kids." Then it added, "Their mothers used drugs, and now it's the children who suffer." About one out of 10 babies born in the United States, or about 375,000 a year, have been exposed in the womb to one or more illicit drugs, most frequently cocaine. In such places as New York, Detroit, Los Angeles and Washington the percentage of babies affected by drugs is 20 percent or higher.
Yet even this is not simply a case of mourning and sadness. A study of Chicago found that of 300 cocaine-exposed babies who had intensive postnatal intervention at the age of three, 90 percent showed normal intelligence, 70 percent had no behavioral problems, and 60 percent did not need speech therapy. The Time report concluded, "Today's crack kids may be a troubled generation, but they do not have to be a lost generation --unless society abandons them."
--Richardson
