Optimism

None of us are brand new single celled organisms. 

From conception on we are influenced by our environment. Everything our mother feels, eats, and does, affects our growth.

Then we enter the world and find ourselves at the mercy of a million other things.  How much we are held, loved, talked to, reasoned with, fed, exercised, molds us into the person we are going to be.

The playing field is almost never level. Genes only go so far. Yet some children thrive in spite of their parents and their environment.

Most don't.

It's not a bad thing to focus on the success stories, those who do great things in spite of terrible situations, but it does deflect the focus from those things that might be changed and raise the odds of more children succeeding.

It's up to each of us to do the best we can to give all children a chance, all young people a chance, even young adults a chance since they will be the god being of a new generation of children.