If you were born poor.....

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sallylou said:
I don't want to be born anywhere where infant mortality is high. Ironically, the U.S. is currently ranked 39 in infant mortality. The U.S. ranks 43 rd for adult female mortality, and 42 nd for adult male mortality. I'd pick a country with better odds of survival. I also recently read that one out of three children live in poverty in the U.S.
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Just to put it in context:

Nearly seven U.S. babies die out of every 1,000 live births. More than 28,000 American babies die before their first birthday.

In Japan, ranked in third place behind Singapore and Hong Kong, the infant mortality rate is 2.8 per thousand live births -- less than half the U.S. rate.

Infant Mortality: U.S. Ranks 29th
 
Nearly 13 million American children live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level, which is $20,000 a year for a family of four. The number of children living in poverty increased by more than 11 percent between 2000 and 2005. There are 1.3 million more children living in poverty today than in 2000, despite indications of economic recovery and growth.

NCCP | Who are America’s Poor Children?

So much for all the resources they need.
 
I think I would choose Canada or Denmark .. although living the life of a beach bum in Hawaii like Robin sounds pretty darn good right about now! lol
 
Daredevel7 said:
Is being poor 50 years ago the same way one is poor today in America?

I would be happy to be poor 50 years ago in America and give myself a chance to pull myself through as Reba described it.

Today? I'm not so sure...
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Yes, that's when we were poor, mostly during the 1960's. We had no welfare, food stamps, Medicaid, etc.
 
jillio said:
I was replying to another poster's question. Sorry that you seem to have a problem with that.

Why didn't you answer the question?
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Which question?
 
Daredevel7 said:
Is being poor 50 years ago the same way one is poor today in America?

I would be happy to be poor 50 years ago in America and give myself a chance to pull myself through as Reba described it.

Today? I'm not so sure...
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Very interesting question..I like it. :hmm:

I am not sure which country I would like to be poor in since I dont have experience in traveling internationally.
 
Reba said:
If I was born poor, I'd rather live in a country (USA) where I could have an opportunity to pull myself out of poverty rather than live in a country that supported my poverty.

I wasn't born poor but during part of my childhood my divorced mom, my brother, and I became poor. I was aware that we had become poor but we didn't dwell on our "poorness." We just made the best of things.
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I disagree, the USA isnt like that anymore.
 
jillio said:
Just to put it in context:

Nearly seven U.S. babies die out of every 1,000 live births. More than 28,000 American babies die before their first birthday.

In Japan, ranked in third place behind Singapore and Hong Kong, the infant mortality rate is 2.8 per thousand live births -- less than half the U.S. rate.

Infant Mortality: U.S. Ranks 29th
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Except you forgot to add:

What's going on? Racial and ethnic disparities clearly play a role. In 2005, for every 1,000 live births, the infant mortality rate was:

13.63 among non-Hispanic black Americans
5.76 among non-Hispanic white Americans
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Premature birth is a factor in more than two-thirds of infant deaths.
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From 2000 to 2005, the U.S. preterm birth rate went up from 11.6% to 12.7%.
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We don't know why non-Hispanic black American have higher percentage of infant mortality,
but some things come to mind - in the case of immigrants- certain diseases contracted in country of origin that worsen the general health,
cultural differences that may affect care for the baby.

Same apply for white non-Hispanic immigrants.
Especially those with little or no education, language barrier may contribute to these statistic.

Clearly, looks like Japan have less of such problems to deal with than US of A.

Fuzzy
 
Audiofuzzy said:
Except you forgot to add:



We don't know why non-Hispanic black American have higher percentage of infant mortality,
but some things come to mind - in the case of immigrants- certain diseases contracted in country of origin that worsen the general health,
cultural differences that may affect care for the baby.

Same apply for white non-Hispanic immigrants.
Especially those with little or no education, language barrier may contribute to these statistic.

Clearly, looks like Japan have less of such problems to deal with than US of A.

Fuzzy
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still the whites have it worse than the japaneses.... I mean. hello.
 
Audiofuzzy said:
Except you forgot to add:



We don't know why non-Hispanic black American have higher percentage of infant mortality,
but some things come to mind - in the case of immigrants- certain diseases contracted in country of origin that worsen the general health,
cultural differences that may affect care for the baby.

Same apply for white non-Hispanic immigrants.
Especially those with little or no education, language barrier may contribute to these statistic.

Clearly, looks like Japan have less of such problems to deal with than US of A.

Fuzzy
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Well, Japan isn't quite the melting pot like the United States and elsewhere.
 
Audiofuzzy said:
Except you forgot to add:



We don't know why non-Hispanic black American have higher percentage of infant mortality,
but some things come to mind - in the case of immigrants- certain diseases contracted in country of origin that worsen the general health,
cultural differences that may affect care for the baby.

Same apply for white non-Hispanic immigrants.
Especially those with little or no education, language barrier may contribute to these statistic.

Clearly, looks like Japan have less of such problems to deal with than US of A.

Fuzzy
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Who is "we"? You got a mouse in your pocket? Maybe you don't know, but there are many who do.

So, just because a high proportion of the babies dying are black, it makes it better?:roll:
 
kokonut said:
Well, Japan isn't quite the melting pot like the United States and elsewhere.
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Read the numbers. Even the whites in America have it worse than the Japanese.

But I'm interested. What exactly does your "melting pot theory" have to do with infant mortality that is horrible in an industrialized nation with some of the best health care in the world?
 
jillio said:
Read the numbers. Even the whites in America have it worse than the Japanese.

But I'm interested. What exactly does your "melting pot theory" have to do with infant mortality that is horrible in an industrialized nation with some of the best health care in the world?
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Best health care? Even Cuba does better.
 
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