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1. The pre-Civil War era was a time of reform. Describe and explain the people who led these reform movements, and why. Whom or what were they trying to reform?
Dorothea Lynde Dix, one of the America’s most eminent reformers of the living conditions and treatment of the mentally ill. After first-hand observation of some of the worst “snake pits” that existed in the United States during the mid-19th century, she tirelessly lobbied state legislatures and the U.S. Congress to enact some of the earliest American laws governing mental asylums and psychiatric care.
Also, within this period, children were both valued and devalued. Share your view of how children are valued and devalued today, supporting your claims with scholarly references and professional experience.
The value of children depends on whose child. The value of children depends on their ethnicity, the wealth of their parents, their genetic makeup, and their socioeconomic level. For example, the infant mortality rate in the US is higher among Black non-Hispanic infants, Native American infants, and Hispanic infants than white non-Hispanic infants.
The devaluation of children has also negatively impacted the support that research affecting children has received. Within the National Institutes of Health, the largest funder for pediatric research, the funds allocated to pediatric research is 10% of the total budget, hardly representing the makeup of the population of the United States, where 22% of the population is 18 years of age. In addition, the average annual growth rate in the amount of money going to the support of pediatric research has declined from 12.8% (FY 1998–2003) to 1.7% (FY 2004–2015). This is similar to the situation in the European Union with an ongoing need to lobby the European Commission and national governments about the priorities and key messages for children.
References:
Value of children in our world | Pediatric Research (nature.com)
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This is really great information. I know in some cultures female children have less value than males because male children were seen as bread winners. Men were also viewed to be stronger and more capable than women thus giving female children less value. Since the beginning of time female children were seen as nothing more than domestic workers and child bearers.
2. Nat Turner was a slave in Virgina in the 1800s. Nat was sold to different masters which entailed him being forced to leave his friends and family and be taken to a new plantation. Nat sought to overthrow the system of slavery. Not only fighting for himself, but to liberate African Americans across the United States. Nat Turner started a rebellation with 6 other slaves, and on the night of August 22nd 1831, Turner and the others went plantation to plantation and killed 55 people who were either their slave owner and family. Turner inspired 50-60 enslaved men to join them. This was stated to be one of the largest slave rebellions to have taken place in the United States, and its role within the antebellum slave society (Walbert). https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/nat-turners-rebellion
Children are valued today in terms of youth, and being the next contributing members of society. However, children are devalued in regard to child abuse and neglect, foster homes, and well-being concerns. Education varies in every city, let alone every school as far as quality of care of education. It is a major factor that comes to us owning a home or renting. I did not find the city public school good enough for my child, and the school she goes to is “zoned”, we have rented and will rent our place until a home comes for sale in the area that will cover the zone for the school our child is currently at. There is also a big play in what is deemed appropriate for children to learn of, and to that I will leave it as, I live in Tennessee and great things are happening here to protect the children.
