Sentences with phrase «as child labor»

Born into an apocalyptic cult and raised in communes across the globe, she was denied an education beyond 6th grade and spent her adolescence as child labor.

Mine had me born and raised in an apocalyptic religious cult, growing up as child labor in cult communes, spending far too much time out begging in the cold, and having my education stopped completely when I was 12.

Spurred by the extreme inequities of the Gilded Age when industrial barons like the Carnegies and Rockefellers amassed huge fortunes while the majority of the country suffered in impoverished conditions, the Progressive Movement began to address issues such as child labor and fair wages.

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This gap is slowly closing, as data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that women with children now make slightly more than women without kids under 18 at home, which wasn't the case a year ago.

The competition is intensifying to use blockchain, the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, to try to eliminate battery minerals produced by child labor.

In addition to its corporate diversity, Alphabet Inc. ranked strongly for worker pay and benefits, including a flexible paid time off policy, and a strong 401 (k) savings program, and for its supply chain impact (the company has committed to reasonable worker hours, and to policies such as no forced or child labor).

Greater attention to treating children with language disorders, such as stuttering, also drives demand for these professionals, about half of whom are employed by schools, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

On the social front, companies are looking to uphold human rights in their supply chains, combating such horrors as human trafficking and child labor.

Of course, Walmart isn't the only company who has employed child labor, but as the United States» top retailer, its continued use of the practice is even worse.

The move would help the iPhone - maker not only save many billions of dollars in the long term but also be more transparent about how the metal is sourced, as there have been concerns about illegal mining operations and the use of child labor.

It is OK to use children as slave labor (as long as they are not Jewish).

In 2001, global chocolate makers signed the Harkin - Engel Protocol to «eradicate the worst forms of child labor,» as defined by the International Labor Organizalabor,» as defined by the International Labor OrganizaLabor Organization.

The very appetite proceeding from labor and peace of mind is gone: we eat just enough to keep us alive: our sleep is disturbed by the most frightful dreams; sometimes I start awake, as if the great hour of danger was come; at other times the howling of our dogs seems to announce the arrival of the enemy: we leap out of bed and run to arms; my poor wife with panting bosom and silent tears takes leave of me, as if we were to see each other no more; she snatches the youngest children from their beds, who, suddenly awakened, increase with their innocent questions the horror of the dreadful moment.

@hazar Right, because child labor is exactly the same as not providing birth control.

The report goes on to say that the prison populations decrease only as people are deliberately starved, forced into excessive labor, executed, tortured, raped, are forced into having an abortion or have their children killed.

There are upwards of 27 million people trapped in slavery today, and an estimated 100,000 children are in the sex trade in the U.S., as well as countless others trafficked into the country for forced labor.

Does the fact that the humaneness of bonded child labor, often tied to the caste system, is disputed within India mean that «no unifying demands» should be placed on that country to halt the practice, or that India should not pass laws on the subject (as it has) until its citizenry is of a common moral mind?

Somehow, capitalism is now confused with democracy and so wierd complete laisez faire capitalism is held up as a goal, when that kind of pure capitalism leads to pollution, child labor sweatshops, etc..

Globalization is the era of mega-competition, in other words, the competition among giant TNCs which accelerates the race for the bottom to make TNCs acquire more profit by further exploitation of labor including lowering the wages, cutting the welfare benefits, laying off employees, depriving workers of their labor rights, using cheap labor such as casual and even child labor, and also by further destruction of environment.

Racism... Child Labor Laws... Protections for the poor... Women's Rights... Labor Laws in general... Religious Persecution... Voting Rights... oh wait, the past sucked and the future can only be better as long as we embrace progressivism and abandon all that Dark Ages crap.

Citing examples of Christian mothers who were instrumental in the abolition of slavery and the passage of laws against child labor, she makes a strong case that virtues such as compassion and creativity that are «refined in the practice of motherhood can and should be used in other arenas to bring God's love, peace, mercy and justice to the world.»

Global poverty, sex trafficking, slavery, unfair wages, child labor, environmental exploitation — I'm proud to see and support Christians confronting these injustices and more, as an expression of our faith and calling.

The leadership structure in most congregations operates as if a three - way division of labor between parents, Sunday School teachers, and pastors still exists and is adequate to the spiritual formation of children and youth.

Somehow, I suspect your very simple - minded response would change if I claimed you as my personal property, restricted your personal freedoms, claimed any children you might have as my additional personal property, and forced you (using only that «necessary» amount of physical violence to maintain your compliance) to perform hard manual labor for 12 hours a day.

They shall not labor in vain, or bear children for calamity; for they shall be offspring blessed by the LORD and their descendants as well.

Now as before, it involves child labor on a mass scale.

In the past the Church as such took a stand against slavery and felt called upon to speak out against child labor even when such speaking hurt profits.

When we of the so - called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank - account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Decades ago, S. Gresham Machen, who has been described as the founder and intellectual leader of American fundamentalism, publicly denounced laws that sought to prohibit child labor.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

Though, as of 2014, the average cocoa farmer reportedly makes about $ 2 a day, illegal child labor and actual slavery are not uncommon.

The latest report from The Economist Intelligence Unit, «No more excuses — responsible supply chains in a globalised world ``, found that four in five respondent companies described their firms as having responsible supply chains, yet only under a quarter were actually addressing key issues such as climate change or child labor.

«In addition to ensuring the quality of the products themselves, we want to make sure there is no child labor being used, as well as to support female work forces in developing nations,» he states.

«In addition to ensuring the quality of the products themselves, we want to make sure there is no child labor being used, as well as to support female work forces in developing nations,» he states.The company also makes a point of hiring local women who, many times, have difficulty finding adequate employment.

Within OCFT, Ms. Sasser has also served as Division Chief of Research and Policy, coordinator on combating trafficking in persons, coordinator for Executive Order 13126 list of products made with forced or indentured child labor, and project manager for technical assistance programming in South East Asia.

She has worked for local and international NGOs on issues such as gender and poverty reduction, and has consulted on M&E, child labor, forced labor, and trafficking issues.

Our program requires these five focus areas above to flourish, as well as three cross-cutting themes: women's empowerment, child labor and climate change.

To ensure our purchases do not contribute to deforestation, loss of biodiversity or social issues such as forced and child labor and human trafficking, Kraft Heinz seeks to procure palm oil products in an ethical, transparent, responsible and sustainable manner.

Short woven wraps are used for support in labor and deliver and even as tools for parenting special needs children beyond their «wearing» days.

Intensive parenting, according to anthropologist Solveig Brown, author of All on One Plate: Cultural Expectations on American Mothers, «views children as innocent and priceless, and assumes that mothers will be the primary parent responsible for using child - rearing methods that are child - centered, expert - guided, emotionally absorbing, labor - intensive, and financially expensive.»

From pregnancy through their labor, and then their infants, as well as their older children and families, I have used these alternative modalities with many good outcomes.

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These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

As it continues, your child may have labored breathing or stridor, a high - pitched squawking or crowing noise when he inhales.

iMO, viewing a labor and birth, no matter how much explanation has been given, MUST be traumatic to pre-adolescent children — and to be honest, to most adolescents as well, even when the outcome is entirely uncomplicated.

Or maybe you've hired a «sibling doula,» a doula who has gotten to know your child (just as a doula gets to know the family and their intent in the birthing process) before the birth and then comes once active labor begins to «hold space» specifically for your child.

I wondered how she did during labor, if she found a midwife closer who as able to illegally deliver her child, if she had to ride in the car for those long hours to get here, or if she stayed in a hotel near the midwife during those last few weeks.

A child's temperament may change a lot during the first few months, because the way a newborn behaves is influenced by temporary factors such as pregnancy hormones, maternal health and diet, duration of labor, a premature birth, and immature neurological development.

Today's global economic and labor conditions are changing rapidly, with some positive, but many negative implications for women's health and livelihoods, as well as that of their children and families.