...Essay on Baby Girl. These days gender imbalance is becoming a grave problem especially in India. Girls are either aborted from mother’s womb or killed after birth. This gives rise to crimes like rape and killing. Write an essay emphasizing importance of women in the society. In ancient time birth of a girl child was considered as auspicious. As per an Indian proverb, “A home without a daughter is like a body without soul”. The birth of a daughter in the house was compared with the advent of Goddess Laxmi, the Goddess of wealth and Goddess Saraswati, the Goddess of Knowledge and Wisdom. No ceremony was considered to be complete in absence of women. The belief was that “No home is complete without a woman.” These days gender imbalance is becoming a grave problem especially in India. Girls are either aborted from mother’s womb or killed after birth. Indian is a “Male Dominated Society” hence women are the receiving end. They are always will treated and ill-treated at every step. As a matter of fact, a girl child is under constant, vigil initially by the parents, then her husband and finally her own children. She is never allowed to dwell and survive freely. Worst of all she is often killed before being born while in mother’s womb itself. This is foetus killing or infanticide. This is the gross downfall of humanity, morality and the values. The situation has drastically worsened these days. Women suffer badly, infanticide have become widespread. Parents don’t send daughters for...
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...was conducted over a period of six weeks during February and March 2003, including one week of preparation and one week of report writing. Regional working group members of Save the Children Sweden - Denmark (SCSD) in the respective countries took the responsibility for identifying and contacting organisations and individuals who are working to combat CSA, particularly those providing psychosocial support to children affected by abuse. A total of 34 organisations and individuals were met. Six days were spent in each country, except in Afghanistan, where only three days were spent. The six locations were Peshawar, Islamabad and Karachi. Organisations met included those working on child sexual exploitation and sexual health, and those working with communities of street children, MSM (men who have sex with men), and trafficked women and girls. Many groups could not be visited due to time limitations. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), university psychology departments, community-based organisations (CBOs), international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) and donor agencies, as well as independent research consultants and a theatre animator | | | were amongst the contacts met. Interviews were held | | | with those at management level, heads of organisations, | | | coordinators of child protection units, trainers, | | | programme officers, field workers, therapists and | | | counsellors. Wherever possible, counsellors, therapists | | | and caregivers...
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...Devika Mathur ENG100 Ryan Bloom 10 April 2013 Baby’s First Word: Designer There was once a time when the term designer was used only in terms of style and fashion. It was a choice between brands such as Gucci, Prada, or Armani and never a choice between disabilities, skin color, or gender. It is sad to say the word designer no longer applies to just materials anymore, it’s reached a new level; genetics. There is nothing ethical about being able to essentially manipulate the genes of a fetus to reflect characteristics deemed suitable by the parents. The characteristics chosen by the parents, such as a medical miracle match of genes to another sibling, set the child up to become what the parents want and not necessarily what the child wants to be. Genetic alteration of the baby also contributes to the unfairness that is gender preference and gender based discrimination. The possibility of genetic hierarchies, to which those that are not genetically enhanced are considered inferior, will increase tremendously because of the increasing gap between classes. It is understandable that technology is moving humanity towards a better more advanced future, but what shouldn’t be forgotten is that some things created in nature cannot be replaced by technology. Designer babies are just one of the few gray areas in which science infringes upon the way of nature. Scientists claim that not everything about genetically altered test tube babies can be considered bad. Science has...
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...Should DNA be used to screen embryos? For couples haunted by a family history of genetic disease, there are few reproductive choices. Aside from adopting a child or using IVF with donated eggs or sperm, they can either take the risk of conceiving a child with the disease, or not have children at all. PGD has changed this, and it is now possible to have a child without passing down an inherited disease. Mark Hughes, now a professor at the Center of Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University School of Medicine , first developed PGD in the mid-1980s while at Baylor College of Medicine , and with British colleagues Robert Winston and Alan Handyside used it to screen embryos for cystic fibrosis . The technology was soon extended to many other heritable diseases. PGD is performed on an embryo created through IVF that has developed to the 6–8-cell stage. Changing the sex of your own embryo is a dream come true for many parents. “In the back of my mind, I still had the wanting for a daughter. Within every child I wanted a daughter, says Sharla Miller. “Every time , I was hoping for my little girl. But every time, the Millers had a boy. They ended up with three, so next time Ms. Miller got pregnant she wanted a guarantee that next child would be a girl. Ms Miller looked into adopting a girl, when she stumbled across the web site of “The Fertility Institutes” which offered the odds she was hoping for. As correspondent Vicki Mabrey reported last spring, a new technology...
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...One of the biggest problems in America is our denial. Denying the fact that one out of seven people can’t afford to fill up one cup of food, even in the home of the all you can eat buffet. We face the tremendous problem, yet so simple to solve, World Hunger. World Hunger is a astronomic problem with our ever-lasting increasing population rate. There is approximately 925 million hungry in the world out of 7 billion currently, but it is soon to be 9 billion people. Not only is it adults suffering from hunger, it is mostly children too. Every 10 seconds, we lose a vulnerable, helpless child to hunger. Due to a study conducted in 2008, we discovered that if a child is not provided with it’s proper nutrients within its first 1,000 days of life,...
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...China’s One-Child Policy In China, there are more than 1.3 billion people living, working and building families. In 1978, the government created China’s one-child policy. China’s one-child policy was established by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to limit China's population growth. The policy lets couples have only one child. If they have another child the mother is pressured to abort the pregnancy. The one-child policy has brought many disasters to china since the one-child policy was established. First are the problems of the female abortions and the killing of infants. “As a result, abortions of females have become commonplace, as well as the killing of babies born post-partum.” China’s women must have an abortion, even if they want to keep the baby, because of the policy. “To address the problem, some districts implement a policy where, if the first born was a girl the couple could have another child. But that was no guarantee the second child wouldn’t also be a girl–creating another scenario in which an abortion might be seen as necessary.” In some places they would allow you to have another child if the first child was a girl. But they won’t assure you that your next child would be a boy and might even have an abortion. “Over the course of several decades, this has resulted in millions upon millions of abortions-many of which have been investigated by women, either by the mother, or sometimes the mother-in-law.” Over the past few years there have been many abortions...
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...DISCRIMINATION AGAINST ON GIRL CHILD AND ITS IMPLICATIONS IN FUTURE. Kongala. Rama.Rao. Research Scholar. Department of Sociology & Social Work, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur-522510. Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is precondition for meeting the challenges of reducing the poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance Koffi Annan Introduction Indian culture is centuries old. In Vedic Age Indian Women enjoyed a high status in the home as well as outside. After the Vedic Period women status decreased step by step, due to social economical, ad political changes of the later centuries. Women lost their position in education, and other fields. Consequently evil customs such as purdha, Sati, child Marriage, polygamy, ad enforced widowhood crept in and the women’s status in the home and outside. Different social reformers has played key role for women upliftment. Sex Ratio Sex ratio, defined as the number of females per thousand males is an important social indicator to measure the extent of prevailing equality between males and females in a society at a given point of time. The sex ratio in the country had always remained unfavourable of females....
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...using characterization, theme, and the authors use of the literary device of irony. In the book Mitch give Eddie many character traits that make him a very round protagonist. An example of these traits is Eddie’s heroism. Eddie is heroic because there are at least three times that Eddie tries to save someone else's. In the process of saving someone's life he puts thoughts of his own life aside. One of the times Eddie tries to save someone's life is when he tries to save the little girl from the piers life. This heroic action cost Eddie his life. The second time he tries to save someone's life is when he is in the Philippines and him and his comrades are being held hostage and are in the mines while Rabozzo was sick. Their captors were messing with him while Eddie tried stopping them “He’s sick!” Eddie yelled, struggling to his feet. Crazy Two slammed him down again”(Pg 70). The third time he tried saving someone was when the squad was burning down the village they were kept hostage. Eddie thought he saw a shadow running through the flames and tried to save what he thought was a person put his squad had to subdue him. No matter the danger he puts himself in, Eddie will always try to save another’s life. A theme commonly found in the...
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...The Use of Child Soldiers The use of child solider has become more and more common. Throughout history children have been forcibly recruited to participate in military campaigns, many times even against there own people. Child soldiers are any children under the age of 18 who are recruited by a sate or non-state armed group as fighter, cooks, suicide bombers, human shields, messenger spies or for sexual purposes. It is estimated that 30000 child soldiers are currently active around the world and this number is growing larger each year. Child soldiers are used for a few main reasons. Children are much easier to brain wash then any adult, as a child you do not understand how death really works and it is very easy to convince children that killing is nothing more then a game. Being a child you also lack the sense of fear and awareness of a situation that you develop over the years, due to this the smallest children as young as 7 years old are given AK47’s and are usually placed closet to the enemy. Children are also know to be very unpredictable and this is favored among those recruiting them being said that this makes them better fighters. Children also require much less food than any full grown adult; children also do not require any pay and these are two major ways to save money. Children are also often chosen due to how easy they are to recruit. Many children are abducted right from there homes. Villages are also sometimes forced to provide a certain number of children...
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...W O M E N ’ S C O M M I S S I O N for refugee women & children w U N TA P P E D P OT E N T I A L : Adolescents affected by armed conflict A review of programs and policies U N TA P P E D P OT E N T I A L : Adolescents affected by armed conflict A review of programs and policies Wo m e n ’s C o m m i s s i o n f o r R e f u g e e Wo m e n & C h i l d r e n N e w Yo r k W O M E N ’ S C O M M I S S I O N for refugee women & children Copyright © January 2000 by Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 1-58030-000-6 Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children 122 East 42nd Street New York, NY 10168-1289 tel. 212.551.3111 or 3088 fax. 212.551.3180 e-mail: wcrwc@intrescom.org www.intrescom.org/wcrwc.html w cover photographs © Rachel K. Jones, Marc Sommers, Sarah Samson, Holly Myers, Anne-Sophie Rosette, International Rescue Committee M I S S I O N S TAT E M E N T The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children seeks to improve the lives of refugee women and children through a vigorous program of public education and advocacy, and by acting as a technical resource. The Commission, founded in 1989 under the auspices of the International Rescue Committee, is the only organization in the United States dedicated solely to speaking out on behalf of women and children uprooted by armed conflict or persecution. Acknowledgments The Women’s Commission expresses its sincere...
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...it comes to child labor? Series in Childhood Studies: Rights and Wrongs of Children’s Work by Michael Bourdillon, Deborah Levison, and William Myers examines this question. “In Europe and North America it is widely assumed that factory work is bad for children, a clear case of harmful “child labor” (Bourdillon, Levison, Myers 1). Americans and Europeans are very strong in their belief that “forcing a child to work” is automatically “wrong”, no matter the circumstances. Thus, we see many cases of immediate intervention with a superficial resolution of “ending of child labor” yet leaving dire consequences for those around them. While America and Europe may think that intervening in cases of child labor is always “right”, often their intervention create more of an “interference” and is “wrong” for the situation at hand. America and Europe are “right” to care for the rights of children, but must slow down to research and understand the economic and cultural conditions surronging child labor around the world. In 1995, a British TV Show caught wind of a factory using child labor in Morocco and decided to film an exposé. Executives, after hearing about the expected exposé, quickly went in and fired all young girls working in...
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...huge struggle for the girl. In many countries, young girls between the ages of seven and fifteen are often married to older men by the force of their families. During this marriage, girls face extreme hardships including the lack of education, emotional adversity, and poor social skills. The emotional and social effects of early marriage are varied, but one of the most common outcomes is the withdrawal of girls from formal education. When a girl reaches the age around ten, her parents have already arranged a wedding for her and have taken her out of school to prepare the girl to be wed and to have children. At the age of ten a girl is not fully matured, nor is she well educated. Education is one of the largest losses to a girl if she is married young. Not having a full education like other children brings many hardships to the girl. Taking a girl away from school to marry and to have children limits her opportunities to develop as an individual. After getting married and having a child, a lot of times the girl will want to go back to school to further her education, but most schools will refuse to take in a girl if she is married or has a child. These girls that now have a family at a young age, have to work to earn a living, but since they are denied an education, they are not qualified for most jobs that are available around them. Not only does a girl lose her education, but she also experiences an emotional adversity. From the point of birth, girls are made to think that...
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...2015 A Family Story (about myself ) Introduction: This essay tells the story about a little girl who is from the small island of Jamaica W.I, and the challenges she had gone through when her mother who had being migrated to Canada and in her mind she is all alone. As you read more of this story you will find that there are so many other children that are out there in this world going through what this little girl had gone through. It is very hard when you are a child and in your mind it seerm as if no one care for you especially when the one thing that matter most to you is gone and you think that you are all alone. Let me asked are you this little girl if you are then I believe that you will find this story very interesting and intriguing. Conclusion: As I grow from a child to a woman my greatest desire is to become a christian and talked to people about God, it makes me feel good knowing that I am actually doing something for myself. I realized that I am not a little girl any more I am an adult, an adult who can make her own decision why should I be afraid. Living my life as a christian is not an easy thing to do but the almighty God will lead me and guide me in everything that I want to do. I have learned over the years as a little girl growing up that being a christian you have to live a life to please God. There are so many responsibilities that come with being save, like teaching the word of God, witnessing to others, you must live holy and try to be an example...
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...A Different Shot My chosen text is “In Creve Coeur, Missouri” by Rosanna Warren. Only in Creve Coeur would an expert photographer firebug snap a shot so eloquent: fireman bent low over the rag of body held like impossible laundry pulled too soon from the line, too pale, too sodden with smoke to flail in his huge, dark, crumpled embrace. He leans to the tiny face. her hair stands out like flame. She is naked, she has no name. No longer a baby, almost a child, not yet a ghost, she presses a doll-like fist to his professional chest. Her head falls back to his hand. Tell us that she will stand again, quarrel and misbehave. He is trying to make her breathe Strong man, you know how it’s done, you've done it again and again sucking the spirit back to us from its lair of smoke. We'll call it a fine surprise The snapshot won a prize and the fireman saved her that night in Creve Coeur. 9/11, the Columbine Massacre, the Holocaust, Hurricane Katrina. All four were terrible and sad events. Yet, the photographs taken of these events are some of the most moving in the world. They may show some of the saddest things one can imagine, but they are still looked at as beautiful. The photographers of these events are said to be masters of their craft, and they receive praise from thousands of people, but what about the family members of those depicted in these pictures. How would you feel if you lost your mother? Even better, how would you feel...
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...themselves in the trap of girl-boy inequality. The ‘liberal’ Indian society has failed to transform the other orthodox India. No doubt India is advancing at a fast pace in the field of science and technology, and also in aping of the western culture, but if we look at the grass root level, the picture is not so rosy; it is rather a dark, especially when it comes to how we treat the fairer sex. The status of females in India aptly symbolizes India’s status of being a developing nation – miles away from becoming a developed state. Of course, India deserves to be in this list because here, in this 21st century, the girl child continues to be murdered before she is born. Female foeticide is still prevalent in the Indian society, in fact, it has been a practice for hundreds of years. Narrow-minded people do not mind murdering their unborn daughters for the fear of giving huge amounts of dowry at the time of her marriage. Such people, whenever they discover they are going to have a girl child (through illegal sex selection tests), get the foetus aborted. Else they would continue to reproduce till they get a male heir. When price rise is already taking a toll on the standard of living, is it necessary to go in for more than two children irrespective of their gender? Many families put pressure on women to give birth to boy so that he can take family’s name forward, light the funeral pyre and be the bread earner of the family. But these days, are girls less competent than boys...
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