I can think of many other groups of demonized children besides crack babies. Some of these groups would be sexually abused children, and children who experience domestic violence in their households. These children are scarred for life because of those actions. We often feel sympathetic for these children, but sometimes we are afraid of them because we dont know how to act towards them or how they will act towards us.

Hi;
Although I think the author, Glassner, a little bit exagerrates the issues he discusses in his book so far, I agree with him in that chapter.
In addition to crack babies, I think that orphan children are also a part of that category. I have an orphan cousin and I could feel when I was a child that his friends were a kind of scared of him as if being orphan was something that necessarily causes you to do something wrong, i.e. illegal or immoral. In my opinion, the general attidute of the community is in that way towards orphan children. They are thought to be potential criminals and people are afraid of them instead of helping them.
Orphan children are also forced to be scared of "being orphan" with the stories they hear about other children whose parents don't take care of them and as a result, drift away to "wrong directions" in their lives.
That's all from me...
Halil

His remindes are fisable in small situations but i am not sure about a national level. Well anyone that is protected by the Americans With Disablites act. People sometimes act scared around them because they do not know how to be politicaly corrct or just do not know how to act. This puts these people on a pedistal that they may not want to be on and if they are choldren they may get more attention then they want and that can greatly affect the children's mind set.

My mom works in a children shelter that takes care of infants from the time they are born, found in trash cans, taken from their parents, until the time they are 3 years old. Having worked there and in the other shelters (those for older kids) she has come to realize that the kids are no different than any other except for the fact that they were born into a life either without a family or a bad one at that. The book categorizes these kids, and crack babies to be the ones who primarily cause all the violence but I don't think it is just them. There are kids that are very wealthy and spoiled who want to rebel, kids that are perfect students who just lose it, and those who just don't care. People should realize that the adults are responsible for the raising of a child, they pick up what they learn, it's called imitation.

I agree that Glassner does exaggerate, especially in this chapter. He emphasizes much of how teens and children that commit suicide or are crack babies are the bad apples in our society. I do agree with him that the media does mainly bring that out to be very troubling in america through headlines in the news even though thier stastics again are not thoroughly researached.