Why are chronic childhood illnesses on the rise?

That’s the $64 billion question. For certain conditions, such as autism, we don’t know why cases are increasing so rapidly. Some researchers believe we can thank (or blame, depending on your viewpoint) better diagnostic tools, which means doctors simply are finding more cases, not that there necessarily are more.

But others believe there must be environmental triggers that we’re overlooking. Some conditions have fairly obvious causes. The spike in diabetes is almost certainly due to the rise in childhood obesity.

But regardless of whether the causes are mysterious or blatant, the result is the same: More and more kids are in big-time chronic health trouble. From The Smart Parent's Guide: Getting Your Kids Through Checkups, Illnesses, and Accidents by Jennifer Trachtenberg.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.