Blog #4: Teen Girls sex trafficked

I wanted to do one more blog on the same night! I was reading ABC news and one news came across about Teen Girls' Stories of Sex Trafficking in U.S... Yes, to be specific, in Arizona! I mean, it is in AMERICA, where we are at right now, "The FBI estimates that there are well over 100,000 children and teens in the United States -- most of them young girls -- being trafficked in the sex trade" (ABC News).





"Fifteen-year-old "Debbie" is the middle child in a close-knit Air Force family from suburban Phoenix, and a straight-A student -- the last person most of us would expect to be forced into the seamy world of sex trafficking" (ABC News).

I recommend you to click on this link and READ: http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1596778&page=1



Wow, this is crazy. Debbie got kidnapped from her own home driveway. Anything like this could happen. Her friend told Debbie that she will come by and visit her, so, Debbie went outside then got kidnapped. One statement in the article gave me goosebumps, "When Debbie was finally freed from the drawer, she was sobbing, and said she gave the officer "the biggest hug in the world" (ABC News). She was really scared until she saw the police and that is when she finally became HAPPY to be rescued.




Honestly, just click on the link and READ!!! I became speechless when I read this article.

Blog #3: Child Soliders

*blows the dust away*

It have been a while ever since I posted a blog. :) This blog, it is going to be about child solider.. Speaking of child soliders, I decided to find an article on it because of the book, A Long Way Gone.

"Over the last ten years, two million children have been killed in conflict. Over one million have been orphaned, over six million have been seriously injured or permanently disabled and over ten million have been left with serious psychological trauma" (Cates).

War do make big difference in children's lives. Also, war do affects every apperances of a child's body development, "Besides, children are, due to their physical constitution and growth, most vulnerable to being deprived of food, medical assistance and education, which has a severe and lasting impact on their development" (Cates). When the war is over, every child have no where to go because who would want a disabled, psychological trauma, or anything child. It is like the war is one of the major issues for destroying children's childhood. Childhood is when a child who is innocent and still new to the world. Yet, they had to see the reality, blood, killing, etc at an early age. Poor those little ones.

I agree with this, "Children are deliberately targeted as they are manipulated more easily than adults and can be indoctrinated to perform crimes and atrocities without asking questions" (Cates). Like I said, children are supposed to be innocent during their childhood, and they are being "forced" to fight and they do not bother to ask because they are easily manipulated rather than adults. Adults would ask why before make a decision to be involved the war or not. I just could not imagine myself sending my own child to fight in the war. They do not deserve to be forced to fight unless they stand up and say, "I want to go in army" at an appropriate age.

One more thing, AMEN to this, "“War violates every right of a child – the right to life, the right to be with family and nurtured and respected”, (Grace Machel, UN, 1996)" (Cates).

credits goes to http://www.child-soldier.org/

Blog #2

"Some common causes of child labor are poverty, parental illiteracy, social apathy, ignorance, lack of education and exposure, exploitation of cheap and unorganized labor. The family practice to inculcate traditional skills in children also pulls little ones inexorably in the trap of child labor, as they never get the opportunity to learn anything else" (http://www.childlabor.in/causes-of-child-labour.htm).

That's a shame. Children had to work for those common causes. I know those children did not want to work but they had to because they have no choices. There are some store companies that I buy and use, for instance, NIKE and ADIDAS. I like the quality and the comfort but unfortunately, children made them! Ugh, not a great feeling. Again, they had no choice but work due to those common causes and I can't help buying them! I am an awful and selfish person right here for continue buying Nike / Adidas stuff. I personally believe children should make their own decision if they want to work or not rather than force them. For parental illiteracy, it is like children are losing their opportunities for getting their education because they are stuck working?

Another statement that I agree,

"Illiterate and ignorant parents do not understand the need for wholesome proper physical, cognitive and emotional development of their child. They are themselves uneducated and unexposed, so they don’t realize the importance of education for their children" (http://www.childlabor.in/causes-of-child-labour.htm).

Uneducated parents know no shit about what their children needs, especially for their education needs. Poor them. Sometimes I questioned myself, why would parents who live in poverty decide to have children, if they knew they will have more mouths to feed, or put themselves and children with suffer. Now, for parents with no education, I understand if they wanted to have kids because they have NO idea what will happen later. The bottom line, everybody should get education, period.

I am out. :)

Blog #1: World Poverty

Wheey, my first blog! My first blog will be about world poverty.

World poverty is really tragic! There are thousands, I mean, million people are in poverty, even though there are plenty food in the world. “Yet there is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families” (Breen, 2009). Out there in the world, children attend school to eat. It helps children to forget about hunger. Honestly, poor those children. I sometimes questioned myself, if the parents knew they are living in poverty lives, then why continue give births? They knew their children will suffer with hunger in severe poverty. One website even said that poverty is one the global issues, then, do something about it? Eh, there are many organizations trying to reduce / stop poverty but apparently, it is hard. Nothing have changed yet. “But deeper and more global causes of poverty are often less discussed” (Shah, 1998). I can’t imagine watching my children dying from poverty, to be specific, hunger. Over 25 thousand children die every year from poverty. Children are our future and this need to stop!

Credits go to:
http://www.poverty.com/
and
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty