Blog 2- Child Brides

Summary:

Last week, I brought about the topic of child brides and its prevalence rate in Islam and went briefly into the adverse physical effects it has on a child’s development at a young age. This week, the topic revolves around the personal effects being a child bride can have. The article I found, “The Stark Contrast between Child Brides and School Girls”, gives great insight to the detriment being a child bride has. The article and video takes place in Chad, Africa and depicts a particular child who sees her life in two ways. One way, the worst and horrible way, was that child as a bride on her death bed with loved ones crying over her. The video states that, in Africa, 13.5 million girls under the age of 18 were forced into marriage and of that 13.5 million, 7 out of ten of them die while giving birth (Couch, 2015). Yet another horrific fact given in this video is these girls are often secluded in their homes, made to do everything, and are often with violent husbands. Another depiction in this video was with the same girl, but this version was her being allowed to go to school, make friends, and be a child.

Analysis:

I find this topic to bring intense feelings of anger and sadness and the desire to speak up and do something. Not only is the topic of child brides revolting, but this article and video shows just a couple of effects a child bride experiences. Throughout the video, you could see the girl wanting to have what ultimately she could have, you saw her fear and innocence being taken away, and you saw her life yanked out from under her. All of this needs to change and I say we start now!

Work Cited

Couch, R. (2015, February 4). Dramatic Video Shows Stark Contrast Between Life As A Child Bride And As A School Girl. Retrieved February 12, 2015, from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/04/child-brides-chad-unicef_n_6607552.html

Time Stamp: 2/13/15 8:16pm

Corey Sitton, China workforce Blog #2

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Blog #2 Soc 202-001 Corey Sitton

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/how-to-cut-skilled-labor-costs/

Cutting skilled labor cost...sounds awful doesn't it? Is this not what we are bred to do as Americans? Get good grades in school so you can make mom and dad proud and get into a good college. Get good grades in college so that you can get a good degree and therefore get a good job. Get a good job so you can make money, pay bills, have a family, and pursue happiness. But wait, according to this article, what is happening to millions of Americans across the nation is that the final step to their success is the hardest to complete. They spend money to go get an education and learn a skill, and then nobody is hiring. Why is nobody hiring? Well, America is outsourcing jobs, and they are doing it to save money. We are too expensive to pay as skilled workers here. The problem is it is so expensive to get the education to of the skill, that we need to be paid what companies can't afford to make up for the loss. Why do American companies not see the point in keeping Americans working here in our country? According to Folbre, "The more fundamental question is how much American employers can cut their costs either by importing highly skilled workers or exporting highly skilled jobs." The competition of young career aspiring Americans is in serious threat to Globalization of the economy. 

Blog #2 Sex Trafficking

Courtney Gaston
September 7th 5pm
Blog #2


A crime that is seldom reported about is on the rise in New York, sex trafficking and prostitution has become popular in states around the US. The New York police department has started cracking down on this crime by through a program called Johns School. The John School educates offenders that are arrested about the harm and danger to the "Johns" and the prostitutes. "Johns" that are arrested for the first time and have no previous record are able to attend this class and pay a fine instead of going to jail. These prostitutes that these men are seeking are not just normal women but usually are children brought from China or South Africa and many other places around the world. Most of these girls are ages 11 to 14 and have many disease such as HIV and AIDS. The class is suppose to educate these men and deter them from being in this situation again. The class also shows how abused most of these women are, they are usually working for someone and are on drugs. The money they are receiving form the prostitution helps adds that addictions and keeps them for ever enslaved to either a person or a drug or both. Once the men complete the class they receive a Completion dismissal, after the class if they do not get arrested of this crime their record will be wiped clean. The class has proved success, 90% of the men do not get convicted of the crime anymore. There has been over 3000 attendees in the school since 2002. The school makes it very clear that the next time they are convicted for this crime they will be facing jail time.

http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/13/trafficking-class-for-men-using-prostitutes/