Somehow, UNICEF’s recent ranking of twenty-one richest countries in terms of children’s wellbeing does not surprise me the least bit (“Full of Woe,” February 17, 2007). When I left the United States in 1990, I was glad to be rid of the black kids; and when I left Britain in 2003, I was glad to be rid of the white kids. Anti-social behavior among children was rife in both countries, although the underlying reasons appeared somewhat different. At any rate, the place of the two at the very bottom of the ranking struck me as just right. But your timid review of the findings strikes me as less than genuine, for there seems to be a strong correlation between the plight of children and capitalism at its most rampant. The Reagan-Clinton and Thatcher-Blair eras will surely be remembered by this perilous nexus, which you should have spotted long before UNICEF did. After all, what are liberals for?