Alex Kotlowitz is a freelance writer. In 1985, a friend came to him asking him to write a photo article (poor child) he was working on for Chicago magazines. At that time he met a river brother, Rafiette, 10 and Faroa, 7. He interviewed in a photo article for several hours. Lafeyette influenced Kotlowitz. When asked what he wants to be, Lafeyette replied: "If I grow up, I want to be a driver of the bus, I mean he can be an adult I do not know.
There are no children here - I reveal the truth as I found out that I am most interested and worried about children in my country and I focused on populated areas where the population of children is high I decided to combine. Modern slums, violent crime, gangsters activity and death. From 1985 to 1993, the number of children who died of violent death increased by 10%. - Children who do not have children here do not want Henry Horna Homes, an urban center housing project, to be an environment with a story of two boys brought up in the heart of the U.S. city. The story tells the family of the river, especially the two middle-aged boys, Lafeyette and Pharoah, focuses on the collision of drugs, death, gang and poverty. The author explains the destructive life of the family mainly in the city center for children.
As we all know, myriad children in New York are not well educated. These include Blacks and Latin American children who grew up in Brownsville, Bronx and other urban enclaves - the educational achievement of these children is a result of unqualified schools, racial discrimination, poverty and opportunities It is hindered by the toxic mixture of absence. However, in many Jewish parish schools in New York City, Rockland County, Orange County, the educational status of thousands of Hasid's (super religious) children is poor, or at least not widely recognized . . I am an organization that graduates from those colleagues and now attempts to make the problem more widely recognized and correctable.