gender did affect local government spending expenditures. It reported a study made in 2002 by Bratton and Ray which found that the provision of state-funded childcare increased as elected female mayors increased, as well as citing Holman’s finding in 2014 wherein greater social welfare spending and local participation in social welfare programs in the United States were correlated to the increase in female
The problem of teenage pregnancy in the United States • Introduction Teen pregnancy is a general situation and a social issue of every country in the world. The increase in teen pregnancy is very high nowadays. Particularly in the United States, statistic shows that 3 out of 10 American teen girls get pregnant at least once before age 20 and that's nearly 750,000 teen pregnancies every year. Teen pregnancy happens more often due to the lack of sex education and the impact of the media. It is a serious
Kilpatrick et al posits that “despite the fact that marital rape receives little public and scholarly attention, it is one of the most serious forms of violence between intimates.” He goes further to state that it is a “direct manifestation of male sexuality oriented toward domination and has serious physical, emotional and psychological effects on the victim and is equally or even more so as traumatic a violation of a woman’s embodiment and agency
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee was reportedly temporarily banned in 1977 in Eden Valley, Minnesota due to its offensive language such as “damn” and “whore lady” (Doyle). It was also challenged in township schools in the state of Indiana because teachers claim that the book executes “psychological damage to the positive integration process" and "represents institutionalized racism under the guise of good literature” (Doyle). I remember reading this book in my junior English
Kareenah, Bethany, Jacqui and Eva are over-involved with each other. Even after Eva's relationship with Ray takes off, her sisters use her as a defining model. Maybe they weren't independent thinkers. Maybe they truly had reservations about babies, cohabitation and academics that were simply upheld by Eva's stances. Their significant others didn't contemplate these