Alex Kotiowitz's book, There Are No Children Here, addresses the subject of race, values ​​and the community responsibility of the urban marginal class. America's inner city faces problems like violent crime and the war on drugs. With these two explosive problems, the neighborhood is experiencing a downward spiral of social separation, unemployment and welfare dependency. The lives of two black boys, Lafeyette, 10, and Pharach, 7, are followed as they struggle to grow up in one of Chicago's worst housing projects. Lafeyette and Pharaon are no different from many of their neighbors. Their mother is on welfare. Their father is an alcoholic and drug addict. In the house there are other siblings, an older brother and sister as well as younger triplets, like so many other families in the area. Kotlowitz takes you to an offensively maintained, gang-infested housing project where murders and shootings are commonplace. The image of devastation and hopeless despair of the people living inside the project is striking. We can really feel the hope, gra...