Consider Maggie's daughter, Maia, who was born poor and sick to a teen-age mom with no private medical insurance, in a community where there are only a few specialists available to serve an abundance of destitute, chronically ill kids.
Maybe they were hoping the "to riches" part might happen during their own lifetimes, and they weren't totally thrilled to spend their whole lives destitute in the hope that their kids would not.
Meanwhile a coordinator in Cambodia gave IT training to 30 kids from "some of the poorest, most destitute families in Cambodia" so they could take part.
Homeless kids now crowd the downtown area, which, although far from destitute, does appear pretty grungy in places.
His arc to fame is similar to Bieber's: A destitute mother uploads a couple videos of her talented child performing to YouTube, then a record deal and several hundred thousand screaming fans later, the kid's a star.
Marco is destitute; he wants to earn some money and then return home to his wife and kids.
The piece didn't go into much detail, but it did reveal that Bourdin, also known as The Chameleon, had had a career impersonating destitute children, travelling all over Europe claiming to be an orphan or a damaged kid, with what seemed to be the express goal of being taken into care by social services.
Then there were all these kids sent from England to Dr Barnardo's homes, which were institutions for homeless and destitute children, some of them run in the most abusive, horrible circumstances.
In New York, you would have to tell people living in $4 million dollar coops on the Upper East Side that their kids would have as much chance of going to P.S. 199 as a kid in destitute circumstances in the Bronx; and that the school system was going to make sure that the kid in destitute circumstances had the same chance.
