what is trafficking?

In my college writing class, we're starting a big paper on a global issues. My group chose women trafficking, so for the next few blogs I'll be focusing more on that. Women trafficking is a global issue not many people are aware of. The definition of trafficking is the practice of people being tricked, lured, coerced, or otherwise removed from their home, and then compelled to work with low or no payment on terms which are highly exploitative. I hardly knew anything about this topic before we started, but i've learned so much. I thought this problem occured only in Europe, but we found out 50,000 women in the U.S. get trafficked every year. This was so shocking to me because I've never really heard about this before we started researching it. I also found out that overall, 4 million women are trafficked each year. I know there are some support groups trying to help this problem, but they need a lot more than that. Well this is all I have for now, but I'll be talking about this again when i get more information:)

What are effects of teenage stereotyping?

Whether you like it or not, if you're a teen your have an automatic negative stereotpye. Teens are stereotpyed to cause problems, and do illegal things. Yes, some teens are like this, but not all. Adults don't realize this, and they treat all teens different just because of their age. I can think of many times i've experienced this. Many times my friends and I have gone shopping and we've noticed a worker following us around making sure we weren't stealing anything. This is a very common thing for workers to do. At first i found that very offensive, now I'm just used to it. I understand that some teens do steal, but it's sad that we have that stereotype and all of us get treated like we do. Most people think teens have high rates of violence, pregnancy, and sex. I found a website that says in recent years all three of those rates have gone down. It also said the percentage of students graduating now has significantly gone up from ten years ago. I know this stereotype is a hard one to change, but stereotypes are only as true as we decide to make them.