THANK YOU, JUDY, FOR THIS 'NUDGE'. UNFORTUNATELY THE CRIES OF FAR TOO MANY ALL OVER THE WORLD, THOUGH HEARD...ARE UNATTENDED. I LIKE YOUR LAST STANZA... INDEED IT IS PRAYER THAT WILL ALWAYS SHOW US THE WAY TO HELP. IN FACT SOMETIMES 'PRAYER' IS THE ONLY WAY ONE CAN HELP. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS.

Thanks for sharing. Where I volunteer, many orphans have not been held or touched. Volunteering with those most in need around the globe, including orphanges in Washington D.C., has changed my life for the better forever.!

Fortunately, I'm not close enough to hear those cries. But I certainly know that they exist. Fortunately, too, no child born in my extended family, to my knowledge, is crying.

I donate to those in need. But it has always been my wish that through education and equality, babies are not born out of ignorance and poverty. As some sort of comfort for teenage anxiety or peer pressure.

Once, in our lunchroom, two 15 year-old girls hired to work as interns during the summer discussed their babies with their supervisor. I knew that their mothers were bearing the burden of their children while they were learning about college while still in high school.

Fortunately, I've known of some who had children very early and still managed to complete college and have a career. But hard-working families with babies forced into poverty by billionaire greed is totally unacceptable.

Ron