Friday, April 22, 2011

Cheap labor

As I mentioned one of my posts before, many women in developing countries have been having huge problems as cheap labors. I heard story of nannies, sex workers, and workers in the factories. In the first world, people would think that eating, working, and having at least needed things for lives without almost any problems is common thing. People also think that environment they are living in is comfortable such as house, water, air, and more. However, it seems like it would be different in the developing countries.

In the past post, I talked about the nannies and sex workers. Unfortunately, it seems like there are still so many women who work as nannies, and sex workers. I am shocked mainly because there are more women who work as cheap labors compared to men. Especially single mothers, for example, they cannot help working outside their countries or in bad working environment.

When people talk about single mothers working hard for their children, I always wonder "it is luck of fathering" and "where do their father doing?". It is very sad there are many fathers who do not care about their children any more after divorce.

I think every country has to have at least some children support. Otherwise, we cannnot solve those serious problems. In Sweden, all fathers are forced to pay some children support after divorce. If the mothers did not know who the fathers of the children are because of the rape and some other reasons, the fathers will be found by DNA. This helps children of Sweden a lot. I believe that fathers should have responsibilities, too.

I hope more mothers have more time to spend time with their children and have good working environment in the near future.

1 comment:

  1. I agree with you that these women who are hired for cheap labor is saddening. It is horrible that these single mothers are having to do these horrible jobs but maybe they do not want the fathers involved. I agree that the fathers should still have to pay child support after a divorce but there are so many fathers who just decide not to pay and then the women are forced into these jobs because of the feeling of having no other choice. I also consider that if a father was abusive, these women will take the cheap labor jobs so that she can make it on her own and not have to deal with the abuse. however, I agree that there should be more policies in place to ensure that fathers are paying child support. There are laws out there but I know so many people who do not pay their child support. You bring up very good points for a discussion in this blog.

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