Essay On Raising Of America

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Reflection paper As far as all the movies we have watched, The Raising of America, has been the one with the most shocking and interesting facts. Not only did the movie show what is happening to kids right now, but also the effect of how they got there. In America, a big concern for adults is if they can afford to have kids. Not only is it about whether they have the money for it, but also whether they can afford to take time from work and raise their children. This was something very shocking to me, since I didn’t grow up in the United States. In Mexico, families relay on each other a lot when it comes to taking care children. For example, my parents couldn’t afford money for my older brother to be put in daycare, so my grandmother would watch him while my parents were in school and at work. Since most parents do this, which is why all the cousins get close, and in the end, we as a culture are closer to our family then most Americans. Unfortunately, Americans don’t have the same advantage of using family to watch their children. I think this has to do with the fact that most people leave their hometown in …show more content…

It is unacceptable that we pay a ridiculous amount of money for daycare, and all for it to not be helping our children as much as it should. Parents have no other options unfortunately. Adults shouldn’t have to be forced to go back to work 12 weeks after having a baby. You are barely getting to know your own child when you are forced to leave them with a complete strange. I think that this is a policy that needs to be change, for parents to keep their work and raise their child longer before going back. This policy shouldn’t be a company decision but a national policy, with the way our nation is running right now, I don’t think that will be possible to do, so it should start changing within big companies, so that others can follow

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