In my readings I have read about the most horrible things you can ever read. I was so disgusted with what I was reading that I could not believe they were actually talking about human beings. I read this one story, a lady pulled her four kids out of school there ages were 17, 11, 6, and 5 and not too long after all of them were found dead in the house with her. The article said that they been dead for over 15 days. This and many more things have been frustrating me because in most of these child abuse cases it is mostly the immediate family doing the harm to them. I get pissed because if someone can't trust their family that they live with, then who can they trust. That is probably the main reason why most kids have bad behavior, becoming crazy, and everything like that. But any way my research is still going well. So far I have only received one response from the people I contacted and I’m not sure on what I am going to say for the e-pitch. 

Lead based products in the United States still remains an issue even though there have been bans, laws, and recalls enforced inorder to keep lead away from our citizens. Yet we still find lead in a lot of our eveyday products. Lead paint was banned in 1978, but you can probably find it on your walls if you house was built before the ban (especially before the 1960s). Though, these lead paints are not the only lead products that can be found in our homes.

 Here is a small list of lead containing products found in homes:

− Food and liquids stored in lead crystal or lead-glazed pottery or porcelain
− Folk remedies that contain lead, such as "greta" and "azarcon" used to treat an upset
stomach 
− Garden hoses – in brass couplings or in PVC 
− Imported candy containing tamarind or chili
− Wheel weights 
− Computers; circuit boards (young kids should not take electronics apart)
− Old or imported cans with soldered seams
− Antique toys (painted wagons, wood toys, lead soldiers)
− Some foil and colored gift wrap and ribbons 
− Decorations on glass drinking mugs  

Many of us can find some of these products in our homes and they aren't even half of the products that contain lead. We can encounter lead at almost anytime while at home, at work, or in a public environment because it is used in so many products.

     What can we do to avoid lead? There are a few things that come to my mind. For starters, buying products produced in the U.S. would be both great for you and for our economy. By buying products produced in the U.S. you have more of a chance of there being no or less lead coming in contact with you. Not to mention how buying an unimported product would keep spendings within the U.S. economic system. Secondly, buying 100% natural fruit and vegetables is probably the best thing that you can do for yourself. By buying 100% natural fruit and vegetables you are allowing less of a chance for lead to enter your food.

Lead is a serious problem in many countries and communities. Lead poisoning has the potential to cause serious organ problems and even result in death. There have been many cases of lead poisoning throughout history and yet it is still used in the modern day. Lead seemed to have been the human savior at first, but after use for centuries, it has proven how deadly and dangerous it actually is.

Lead poisoning is caused by an increase in blood lead levels, which can cause a large range of medical conditions. With an increase in lead levels, irreversible neurological damage, cardiovascular effects, and reproductive toxicity may occur.
But even more dangerous is the effects of lead in young children. Lead poisoning is even more worrisome in children because children's bodies are still developing and growing. If lead poisoning becomes a factor early on in human development, then even worse effects can occur. As of 2002, the amounts of cases in children involving lead poisoning were around 310,000 (dropped from 13.5 million in 1978). Major developmental issues in children are those such as neurological dysfunction, cardiovascular deficiency, attention deficit disorder, and major organ failure. Most of these conditions are also found in adults, but should be seriously contemplated in children. A leading cause to lead poisoning in children for the past few decades has been the consumption of lead paint chips. Although interior lead paint has been banned since 1978, many houses still contain leaded paint because they were painted before the law was created. Children are also more skeptical to lead poisoning then adults because they absorb 40-50% of the lead that they place in there mouths compared to the near 10% that adults absorb.

The number of children with lead poisoning in the early 1990's has dropped from 4% to between 1-2% in the previous year. These numbers may not seem so severe or scary on paper, but the effects that lead poisoning leaves on these children and their families are huge. Some unborn children have been exposed to lead and develope adnormally while still in the womb. There have even been cases of children born without eyes.