Editorial December 31, 1990 Issue

Belonging

Elaine Natale

As we watch the evening news, we look into the faces of children too young to know what is going on, and the faces of adults who seem to know all too well.

These are the countless people yearning for a place to belong—the dispossessed of our times.

They include masses fleeing war zones or religious or ethnic persecution. Some have been driven from land claimed by others who don't want to share it. The poorest of the poor are homeless in cities of the industrialized West and the undeveloped third world. In some cases, generations have grown up in crowded slums or refugee camps because the complex circumstances that put them there haven't been resolved.

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