I'll post this now, in case you have the time and inclination to read Ch 11 today. BUT do not post it until Thursday, after class or later. You need to consider some issues that we'll discuss Tuesday and Wednesday to respond to my particular question below.
300 words or more: main point and one or two examples
Also: how does this relate to anything we've been discussing re 'targeting men'?
300 words or more: main point and one or two examples
Also: how does this relate to anything we've been discussing re 'targeting men'?
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Chapter 11 is about an important story the news never covers. It is about working moms who would rather go to work than stay at home with the kids. Therefore, these kids are thrown in daycare for half their life to be raised by someone who isn’t even their family. In this chapter, Mr. Goldberg talks about how this can be detrimental to the development of children, and also how modern-day feminism is pushing more women to join the workforce.
Mr. Goldberg has many statistics in this chapter, including some that kids who are in daycare are more likely to have behavior issues like temper, talk too much, mean, defiant, and rebellious. These are for children who are left in daycare five days a week while both their parents work. What the news will show us that we need more daycares, or better daycares and improved daycares. But there are a series of studies showing that no matter how goo the daycare is, the negative effects on the children remain dormant.
Another statistic that Mr. Goldberg brought up is about health. A study was shown that kids who go to daycare were less likely to develop asthma, due to the illnesses and viruses they are exposed to at a young age where they can gain immunity. Mr. Goldberg through this stat in the garbage by showing another statistic that as the number of children who go to daycare increase, so do cases of asthma. But you can guess which one was covered by the media, hint – it wasn’t the one against daycare.
This relates to targeting men because, in the past, it has been the role of the man to go out and work for the paycheck. Now, it might not be just about the man and the woman is bringing in a paycheck. This might feel dethroning to a man and take him out of the position as the man of the family.
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