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When a child’s life is lost, it is tempting to view the tragedy through the immediate circumstances of their death. But beyond the statistics, headlines and public grief lies a much bigger loss: the future that child would have lived, the family they might have built, and the generations that may never come into existence.<\/p>\n
The death of Javits Frimpong, a 15-year-old Ghanaian boy who was shot dead while walking to school in the Bronx, New York, raises a profound question that society must confront:…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> When a child’s life is lost, it is tempting to view the tragedy through the immediate circumstances of their death. But beyond the statistics, headlines and public grief lies a much bigger loss: the future that child would have lived, the family they might have built, and the generations that may never come into existence. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":249151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690796:1a465c6b3062ee38f24a7ebf01e77fbc:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8438,5760,11607,4508,4509,257,8518,9564,254,5084],"class_list":["post-249150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-child","tag-future","tag-generation","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-protecting","tag-represents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-worth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690796:1a465c6b3062ee38f24a7ebf01e77fbc:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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