Parental Advisory

Outstandingly, music that is deemed vulgar for children is censored. Some places, like Wal-Mart, will only sell albums if they have a content advisory (Knoploh). This is to protect the innocence of children, supposedly. I think it is a way to control yet another aspect of our lives. The people who started the campaign of censoring were the president’s wife and her higher up friends (Prabhakar). If it was that much of a problem, why didn’t they control what their own children were listening too. People of the United States suffered as a whole because of this attempt on freedom of speech. However, they have not won this battle. Throughout history, censoring has been taken advantage of and now people, especially teenagers, are rising up to challenge…

clear that they have set laws to make sure all consumers are satisfied. Banning explicit music would take away the peoples choice when listening to music. Having labels offers a sense of security for those who choose not to listen to music with inappropriate, violent, or misguided content. Listening to explicit music is a choice; it is not the government’s or an over protective parent’s decision to determine if a song is harmful or offensive. Artists can voice their opinions and say what they…

Explicit Music’s Impact on Society It was 14 by 8 inches of pure parent protection. The tiny little thing checked everything that anyone wanted to watch or listen to. No ungodly language, nudity, or explicit lyrics. The device easily became my mothers best friend and partner in crime. There was only one way to stop the total lockdown. You could turn off the lock it you knew the password, but as a kid you were forbidden to know it. 6 numbers, a code, that no one could crack, not even my father. …

While the questions of parental leave is most frequently considered in the light of a woman’s ability to take time off from work after giving birth, the importance of paternity leave must also be considered.…

Many cultures enjoy to spend their time working; others tend to prefer to have more free time. The majority of the American’s prefer to spend the most of their time at work and the Europeans much rather prefer to enjoy life and not be tied down to a desk. How is it that they manage to spend more time at home or travel whichever the case may be and still have a decent lifestyle? If anyone were to ask you, "do you enjoy working?" what would your response be? For example, in “America’s Bizarre…

and a childless woman earns 90 cents (Strickland). Strickland proves here that the wage gap is still prevalent today in the workplace. Although the wage gap between men and women has become closer together, the only way the gap can close entirely is to create paid maternity leave. This way, women can take twelve weeks off with their newborn child, and can be financially supported through the stressful and chaotic time. Executive director and chief economist at the Washington Center for…

In America, many believe that taking care of children is a private responsibility this has had led to many work environments to be inflexible and non-family friendly. This perspective was born out of the American ethos of individualism- an ideology that stresses that individuals must be independent and that they are fully responsible for their life outcomes. Hays (2003) argues that this cultural value of self-sufficiency has made us insensitive and nonunderstanding to the social factors that…

There have been many conclusions and ideas on how to decrease the number of abortions and that keep that rate down, but no one has come to a definite solution just yet. The controversy on how to decrease the number of abortions seems to remain to two main solutions. One solution being to require all states to have parental consent laws of underage girls getting abortions.…

It also increases the likelihood of infants getting well-baby care visits and vaccinations, with one study finding that children were 25.3% and 22.2% more likely to get their measles and polio vaccines, when their mother had access to paid maternity leave. Paid parental leave can also increase the rate and duration of breastfeeding. A 2011 study in California found that women who had paid leave breastfed twice as long as women who didn’t take leave. Babies who are breastfed are less…

they knew, that would be a huge disappointment. One day her and I went to an abortion clinic to have the abortion done, but because of the parental consent law in Illinois, she was unable to get one because the clinic had to notify her parents. Many teenagers are scared to tell their parents that they…