Nick Bryant

It's a force in academia, unfortunately.

And I think that what we're dealing with now is an outgrowth of that.

But I also think that the vast majority of Americans are against it.

And I don't see it.

Yeah, I talked to him.

And do you think that it's an outgrowth of—we've got a government that's letting children get molested with impunity.

Do you think that there's any kind of correlation between that and what we have here?

Possibly.

Because I've been writing about children's issues since 1990.

I've written a book about lower socioeconomic children.

And what I see is it's pretty egregious what's happening to American children.

Families with children are a fast-growing segment of the homeless population.

Although it's gotten better, when I wrote that book, there were 10 million American children that were uninsured.

Now there's, I think, far less.

But 22.5% or 22% of American children are growing up below the poverty threshold.

But when you juxtapose, there was a study done by Greg Duncan.

He was a University of Michigan researcher.

And he found that if a child is born at a low birth weight, which is generally because the mother doesn't receive proper prenatal care,

and they're subjected to continuous poverty for five years, if they're white, their IQ is going to be 90.

If they're black, their IQ is going to be 85.