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.…
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 likely to get a variety of infections and are also at lower risk for asthma, obesity and sudden infant death syndrome. There are benefits to mothers who breast-feed as well, as they’re less…
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…
but not required, to offer up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for special circumstances such as childbirth (Gilpin). However, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, less than 15 percent of Americans are actually offered the paid parental leave (Gilpin). In the unlikely event that they are given this option, female physicians still find themselves taking only about 6.5 weeks of maternity leave (Fang). That is just a little more than half of the time that they were given. Why are…
After Steve rushed his wife to the hospital early one Friday morning, within several hours he officially became a father. As he held his son he realized he and his wife are now new parents. His wife planned to take the now standard twelve week maternity leave at home caring for their son. Steve however, will return to work Monday morning as usual. When he returns to work, his lack of sleep and hectic home life will untitentialy impact his job prefromace. This will cause both Steve and his…
In the 2006 Mother’s Day edition of the Washington Post, journalist, Jody Heyman, takes an aggressive stance on the treatment of working parents, primarily mothers. In her article, “We Can Afford to Give Parents a Break,” Heyman addresses the issues of guaranteed long-term paid maternity leave, paid leave to care for sick children, and the myths surrounding the effects of such benefits. Heyman uses the appeals of ethos, logos and pathos to encourage support for her causes. Heyman establishes…
Murder of Ralph Voosen On March 2nd at 1a.m., Officer J. Beach found a dead body lying on the ground. That person was identified as Ralph Voosen. He had a gunshot wound in his head and was surrounded by blood all over the floor. The time of death was estimated between 11p.m. and midnight on March 1. There was a note found in Mr. Voosen’s right pants pocket that read, “Meet me in your classroom at 11p.m. tonight. We need to talk.” I suspect that Brian Craig killed Mr. Voosen. I completed a…
“In 1993 mothers being able to have at least 12 weeks off of work for their child became a law. Maternity leave for men was not relevant until 2003 and The actual act of shared parental leave did not launch until 2015. (Jacobs, 2015, p.3) Maternity leave was looked down upon by most men because of how that was perceived in society, which was that it was neither the mans job, nor thier responsibility. It is known as a woman's job…
As you requested, I am submitting recommendations for the company’s bereavement leave policy that provides the same benefits to all employees, regardless of their jurisdiction or their length of service. The components of the policy include the following; • A definition of immediate family including an employee's spouse, parent, children, siblings, grandparents, and grandchild. In deference to blended families employers increasingly add stepparent, step children, father-in-law, mother-in-law,…
The company was founded more than 35 years ago and now boasts 1,300 employees and $275 million per year in sales. From the beginning, Chouinard and his wife and business partner, Malinda, declared that they would establish a business only on their own terms of environmental preservation above all else. Unlike in many businesses where employees often leave their true personalities at the door to conform to business policies, at Patagonia Chouinard wants employees to retain who they are at all…