How To Love Our Youngest Neighbors

Parsing the policies that can hurt children or help them.

The son of a Sojourners staff member at preschool. / Carlos Duque

I LOVE WATCHING preschoolers from a local day care pass by, holding those ropes with handles, guided at each end by caretakers pacing their steps to match all those little legs. On most days, those brief, adorable bright spots might be the total attention I give to small people or their care. Not my kids, not my responsibility, right? But that is woefully shortsighted. A society and government that is stingy in its support of its youngest members is not good for anyone.

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