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Kids Charged As Adults: The Death of the Infancy Defense

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Everybody is worried about the economic meltdown that is supposed to drive the nation into a depression. Join the crowd. Some parts of society have already been melted, fried and fricasseed. They have too few financial and emotional resources to deal with children who are emotionally needy and have often triaged their kids—saving those they can, and praying for those they can not.

As the emotional throw a ways and castaways bloat our prisons at a cost of more than $20,000 a year each, we continue to divert too many of our resources to the Prison-Industrial-Military Complex. What will happen to the children on the edge if the economy tanks and what few resources we have devoted to juvenile mental health and education disappear?

And will any of us have enough mental resources to care? 

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