My Birthing Experience

    My birth with my daughter was a very memorable one. I did not have any of the hard labors that many women speak of. I had her naturally with no pain medications. I did not even know that I was in labor. I started to see blood which made me nervous when I reached the hospital they told me I was in labor. By the time I reached a room my water had broke and twenty three minutes later my daughter was born.
    China's one child policy was established by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979 to limit communist China's population growth. Although designated a "temporary measure," it continues a quarter-century after its establishment. The policy limits couples to one child. Fines, pressures to abort a pregnancy, and even forced sterilization accompanied second or subsequent pregnancies. (Rosenburg, 2012, pg.1).
     I cant imagine the restriction of having one child. Life is an opportunity that should be granted at the women's discretion. The choice to create a family and determine the family size should be discussed amongst the man and woman not the country leader.

Rosenburg, M. (2012) China's One Child Policy retrieved at http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/onechild.htm

Our President talks about education

"And I’ve said this all across the country when I talk to parents about education, government has to fulfill its obligations to fund education, but parents have to do their job too. We’ve got to turn off the TV set, we’ve got to put away the video game, and we have to tell our children that session not a passive activity, you have to be actively engaged in it. If we encourage that attitude and our community is enforcing it, I have no doubt we can compete with anybody in the world".
             - Barack Obama
Source: 2007 Des Moines Register Democratic Debate Dec 13, 2007  

Children Choosing their Path

     
In my opinion there should be more research that helps children to choose their career path. Once children get to high school many of them have dropped out. Many times the reasons are schools being to general or the fact that many have families to care for at a young age. There are vocational and GED schools to help them get an education to prepare for life. However, the high school diploma should be made with the same criteria. For example I had a cousin that dropped out high school at the age of 16 she took her GED and was taking college courses by the time she was 17. When asked why she stated she was tired of High School and the structure. If we start children exploring early and gear them toward the path of choosing a future occupation they may be more acceptable to becoming a high school graduate.

"90 million females in India are non-literate But 20 per cent of children aged 6 to14 are still not in school and millions of women remain non-literate despite the spurt in female literacy in the 1990s" (UNICEF, 2001, p.1). India has more girls that drop out of school than boys. most of this has to with class and gender issues that arise from the caste. There is also child labor that still exists in many parts of the country. So the education of children are affected especially for girls.

Work Cited: UNICEF. (2001). Education. retrieved from http://www.unicef.org/india/children