As we approach the 100th anniversary of children’s rights, in which the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child stated that humanity “owes to the child the best that it has to give,"  this commentary by Warren Binford, JD, Ed.M, affirms the U.S. has a moral duty to more fully integrate children into our national priorities and decision-making.

Children comprised 22.1 percent of the U.S. population in 2020 and yet just 7.4 percent of the federal budget was allocated for their needs.  It is only when children are able to fully exercise their political rights that their needs will start to be addressed by a system that too often has dismissed them as merely children, and as a result, under-resourced them and their future.
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