Poor Teens in Baltimore Face Worse Conditions Than Those in Nigeria - Study [RT.com]

Thanks Alicia for the article. I am really not surprised. I think many who have not experienced this extreme deprivation cannot understand how bad this is for mental health and in the US we have very rich people and those who don't seem to matter to us.  It really makes me sad.  I know when I was growing up in a rural area, I used to tell myself that "at least I am not poor in the inner city".  There were kids shot all the time and stuff and I thought, it is bad enough here. I could not imagine my rage as a jaguar goes by, likely not gonna happen too often unless the person is lost and the fact that I have no food, my little brother has no  food, our school is a mess with guns, gangs and drugs and little education.  I thought I would be dead of a drug overdose by now and would surely have become a drug addict.  I wish America would understand that one only needs so much to survive. I cannot understand how folks can walk through life in massive excess and not be able to see that kids here are starving, being shot and beaten and we are worse than a third world country. Dr. Garbarino in his book "Listening to killers", has a huge section on the War Zone Mentality --- and it is pretty informative. 

Thank you very much for the really -- I hope eye opening ---post.  T