Monday, March 12, 2012

For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside Marraige

In the US, it used to be called illegitimacy. Now it's normal. In this article, it talks about how more women today are getting pregnant before getting married. More than half of the births to American women under 30 get pregnant  outside of marriage. In the last two decades, women in their 20s have some college education college, but when they get pregnant, they are not able to finish the education that need while they are pregnant. I think that even while a woman is pregnant and have some college education, some of the woman can still be able to take care of their child if they put the child in day care after the baby is a little older, then go back to college and finish their education.

59 percent of the women in 2009, get married when they have children. In the US children are born to mothers under the age of 30. 73 percent of black children are born outside of marriage and 53 percent of latinos and 29 percent of whites. Also 92 percent of college educated women are married when they give birth and 43 percent of schooling women have children with a diploma or less. A lot of women believe that you should get married first before you start having children. They think that commitment is best when you're having children.

This is what happened in the article about women having children before being married. Also on how some women don't finish their school education when their having children.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

In China, Human Costs Are Built Into An IPad


In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad Charles Duhigg and David Barboza point out how workers that work in the apple factory  are being abused, and treated unfairly, and they are doing harsh work. Workers  work long hours and they stand so long that they're legs swell and 137 workers who worked for apple were hurt after they used a poisonous chemical to clean the iPad screen. 
This article included quotes from workers and advocates. One quote that stood out was former chairman  of the National advisory committee on occupational safety and health when he said "What's morally repugnant in one country is accepted business practices in another, and companies take advantage of that". 
This shows that companies could care less about the working conditions for the workers. I think what these big companies are doing to their workers is very wrong and unfair. I say that because no one should have to work long hours, be in contact with poisonous air and chemicals and be treated like dirt. I think that companies should have should care more for the workers since they are the backbone of the company. 
The girls in Ethiopia and the workers are similar in a
 way by them all suffering from unfairness and people turning the other cheek on them. This article gave me a new thought about what it would be like to work for a company and the conditions I would be in. This is the disgrace that happened with the innocent people in China.