What is wrong with US?

We really don't do well by many of our children. We have one of the highest relative child poverty rates in the developed world. As UNICEF reports, "[Children's] material well-being is highest in the Netherlands and in the four Nordic countries and lowest in Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and the United States." We rank near the bottom of the developed world in the percentage of 4-year-olds in early childhood education, which has been proven to be a good investment in a country's future.

And things are getting worse. In 2007 about 12 of every 100 kids were on food stamps. Today it's 20 of every 100. For every 2 homeless children in 2006, there are now 3 Over half of public school students are poor enough to qualify for lunch subsidies, and almost half of black children under the age of six are living in poverty.

Only two nations still refuse to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: South Sudan and the United States.