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Angeline Doesn’t Care How Well You’re Dressed

As Long as You Pass Her Kindness Test

By
Sonja Grover, Ph.D.

Book 18 : Children’s Human Rights and Peace Series (The child’s right to equal opportunity and freedom from social class discrimination)

What’s It All About

It’s about the poor child’s right to respect,

And how certain things ought have no effect,

Like how rich are the clothes one wears,

Or if other’s clothes have many tears,

For that’s not what decides a person’s merit,

And whether our friendship we should share it,

Rather, it’s what’s in the person’s heart,

That’s the only important part.

…And it’s about Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child which sets out the child’s right to be free from social discrimination and Article 27 which stipulates the child’s right to “a standard of living adequate for the child’s…development”