It always starts with educating!!

Study: Educating Young Women Results In Millions Of Children's Lives Saved.

The AP (9/17, Cheng) reports, "Giving young women an education resulted in saving the lives of more than 4 million children worldwide in 2009," according to a new study during which "American researchers analyzed 915 censuses and surveys from 175 countries tracking education, economic growth, HIV rates, and child deaths from 1970 to 2009." The investigators discovered that "for every extra year of education women had, the death rate for children under five dropped by almost 10 percent. In 2009, they estimated that 4.2 million fewer children died because women of childbearing age in developing countries were more educated."