Racism in America

Racism in America

Legalizing Drugs

Is this how we want our future generations to be like ?

Majority of people think that the increase number of drugs abuse right now is caused by the curiosity of an underage generations and the urge of adolesence to break the rules. By making drug abuse legal, it would illiminate the above factors and hopefully decrease, if not somehow supresed the growth of drugs abuse. The society are on the urge of giving up on the drug war that it makes them thinking of an easy way out. By legalizing it, we would not have to worry about the drug abuse problem the way we are right now.

I believe otherwise. We are living in the 21st century where people has a different thinking process. We are more advance in someways and are too naive on another. When discussing about drugs abuse, teenagers are mostly the prime factors of the topic. But we failed to look back and think about why is drugs abuse increasing rapidly in the first place. The society and economy itself are to blame on this matter. The way people live their life, broken homes, kids raised in divorce families, children that does not have enough attention because parents has to work 3 jobs to support the living expenses, etc. All those factors contributes to people trying to find a way out, only to realize there is no way out other than to indulge themselves into a momentary pleasure of being under the influence of a certain substance. Overtime, this becomes the only way they know on how to solve their problems which leads to addictions.

More to that, I believe by legalizing drug abuse is only to prove a point that they are right. That there are no way out of your problems. Why bother trying to work harder to break out of it while these substance can make it all go away ? And overtime, this will only increase the number of users and widen the age range of the abusers.

Is working mother harming the family ?

Some may argue that the society should support women who choose to raise their children full time instead of women who abandon their children to day care providers. The findings are significant because more than half of American infants have mothers who are employed at least part-time during their child's first year of life. Many psychologists and parents worry that the time mothers spend away from their babies when at work detracts from mothers' ability to be sensitive to their babies' needs and to provide for their children.

I think working mothers in the United States can relax. A study from researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found no differences in children's social and intellectual development during the first three years of life between those whose mothers spent a lot of time with them in infancy and those whose mothers spent less time because they worked outside the home. They found that although mothers who were employed spent less time with their infants than nonemployed mothers, the employed women compensated by spending more time with their children on weekends and decreasing the time spent in housework, leisure, outside organizations, travel, and social activities. As expected, mothers who spent more of their available time with their babies (regardless of employment status) were slightly more sensitive and provided higher quality home environments, but mothers' personalities, beliefs, and family circumstances were much more important than time as predictors of their parenting.

Overall, the researchers found, whether or not mothers worked during their child's first three years had no effect on their child's social and intellectual development during those three years.

Same-sex marriage

Legalizing same-sex marriage would be harmful to society, The primary goal of marriage is the bearing and raising of children, who are vital to the future stability of society. The sexual revolution, however, has weakened the institution of marriage by attacking the bonds between marriage, sex, and children. Homosexual marriage, would further damage marriage and the family by legitimizing a dangerous kind of nonprocreative sexual behavior and lifestyle.

Forty-one states currently have statutory Defense of Marriage Acts. Three of those states have statutory language that pre-dates DOMA (enacted before 1996) defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Thirty states have defined marriage in their constitutions. Arizona is the only state that has ever defeated a constitutional amendment defining marriage between a man and a woman (2006), but subsequently passed one in 2008.