Through a Child’s Eyes: Motel Children (The Orange County Register)
An Unconventional New Tool:
Dialogue Connects Readers with Suffering Children
By Pat Ford
Pew Center
“I’m hungry. When does the bread people come?” — Bobby, age 3
“Don’t you know a lot of people die here?” — Jimmy, age 10
“They’re taking our daddy away.” — Lovon, age 4
“Didn’t anybody ever tell you life isn’t fair?” — Angelica, age 4
These are the voices of the “Motel Children,” some of the hundreds of children living lives of deprivation in tourist-turned-residential motels across the street from Disneyland (“The Happiest Place on Earth”).