A Dream for a Better World

2nd, April 2010 is the third World Autism Day. According to journalist’s survey from the Children’s Hospital in Guangzhou, more and more children are suffering Autism year by year and 70% to 80% sufferers are boys. As for Autism, there is no clear cause for the disease and many researchers think it is caused by gene as well as external environment. They have also found 7 to 8 genomes in patients’ body very often but external environment is the uncertain factor. There are some symptoms for Autism and related institute in America has published latest 13 features for Autism. Lag language skill and the lack of ability to communication with people are the most direct external performance. If kids have the following features for growth, they are likely suffering Autism:
1. Babies don’t show happiness when they glare their parents or people who look after them.
2. Babies can’t laugh after 2 months’ birth and they have very slow reaction for things around
3. Babies about 5 months old can not give sound for communication
4. Babies can’t recognize parents’ voice and they do not have response when called by parents
5. Babies can not communicate with others by eye contact
6. Babies can just give sound for communication after 9 months’ birth
7. Babies seldom use gesture such as moving hands
8. Babies repeat actions when they hold something
9. Babies can not speak a word when they are 16 months old
10. Babies can’t give sound or gesture for communication when they are 1 year old
11. Babies can not express with two words when they are 2 years old
12. Kids are lack of language skills though they can speak
13. Kids do not like imitating adults and they always repeat or make sentences by themselves.
A few people suffering Autism are genius such as Newton, Einstein, and Chen Jingruen etc. But for most ordinary people, Autism is a kind of terrible disease and parents, without exception, rack their brains to cure it. The following ways are for Autism treatment: firstly, sensory treatment. In other words, kids with Autism should be cured through auditory sense, tactile sensation and other sense organs training. Secondly, high frequency music treatment. Such treatment can not cure patients in a short term but it can mitigate autism. High frequency treatment can help kids communicate with others, talk to others actively, improve language skills and communicate with others by eye contact and so on. Thirdly, special training for activating brains. A teaching method called “ABA” in America has achieved much for patients’ treatment. Fourthly, “deep tone” treatment. It is also a kind of music cure. Fifthly, induction therapy. The therapy can activate, restore and re-arrange cell in brain. Sixthly, diet treatment. The above 5 ways can be offered by hospital but the sixth way can be achieved by family itself. According to some report, gluten and casein can anesthetize nerves so controlling the two substances can help relieve symptoms of autism.
Autism, like depression, can be found all over the world and the number of patients is increasing year by year. Compared with adults, kids suffer autism much more so parents should pay much attention to kids. If kids show symptoms of autism, they should be treated as soon as possible. After all, the best time for treatment is the period when kids are 6 years old or below.

In order to escape reality, seek for excitement and get relaxation, many people are addicted to drugs. Drug abuse appeared thousands of years ago and it also can be found in modern society. People’s health in China was terribly destroyed in the Opium War 170 years ago and national strength was also weakened. So Chinese people were fear of drug abuse too much and government also took pressures to resist drug abuse. However, in recent years, more and more teenagers start to take drugs.
So why so many young people are addicted to drug abuse? Firstly, they are lured by those of the same age. Young people always pay much attention to peers’ ideas and if their peers say, if you do not try, you are a coward, and then they likely try to take drugs. In addition, young people are very curious about everything. Once they take drugs at the first time, they will take more in future. Secondly, young people like to pursue feelings of excitement. Teenagers are not as rational as adults and they pay more attention to feelings. They just like the feelings of walking on air but they never think about the serious results. Thirdly, families are lack of harmony. Many parents often quarrel and they do not care kids and ignore children’s feelings. Living in such family, children feel very lonely then they turn to drug abuse. Besides, single-parent families also adversely affect children’s growth. In order to support family, single-parent has to work hard and they spend too much time working. So their kids are prone to lured by ban men. Fourthly, school should also be responsible for youth drug abuse. First, some students suffer from stress without getting good grades and teachers also can not offer timely help. Second, some students can not be accepted by classmates at school then they play truant and turn to drugs. Third, teachers do have enough time to help “special students” who are bad students in others’ mind. Fourth, school can not offer proper and enough education about laws. Fifthly, drug traffickers always try to lure youth to take drugs to get high profits and laws at present are very loose. Then drug traffickers have more chance to sell drugs to youth and teenagers also have more chance to get drugs.
Drug abuse not only destroys young people’s health but also damages social harmony. So we should take some pressures to prevent and resist drugs abuse. First, parents should pay more attention to children’s growth and often communicate with kids. Second, government ought to propagate the disadvantages of drugs abuse and draft strict laws for drug abuse punishment. Third, school should care more about students’ behavior and supply more info about the danger of drug abuse. Fourth, government should set up special institute to cure those with drug addiction on both physiology and psychology. Actually, in order to avoid drug abuse, teenagers should learn to refuse drugs offered by drug traffickers and say no. They can even disclose criminals and help police to arrest them.

I recently watched “Funny Games” in which two guys play with families in these rich houses then kill them all including the children.  It reminded me of those distressed people who lose their jobs and kill their family in a murder/suicide.  I am sorry, but how does killing children help at all?  Why would a movie put that in their script?  Why would a man who lost his job kill his own family?  His kids?  Kids are innocent.  Yes, they do bad things, but they don’t know what they are doing, they are children.  There cannot be 1 good reason to kill a child.

I understand America is against using torture but to have the same criminal sentence for a man to kill a child versus a man killing a man, is wrong.  There just has to be stronger laws against killing children.  It is the only way to even let a bad man to prevent a child who might be in the way.

I do wish that America could consider changing their laws to make the killing of children worst than killing of an adult.

Most countries worldwide acknowledge the fact that exploiting children for regular and sustained labor should be prohibited and in most developed countries, laws do exist that prohibit the use of children under a certain age from economic exploitation.  But instituting laws against child labor may cause more harm than good in developing countries.  Many youth rights groups, other organizations and some scholars argue that banning child labor or boycotting companies that use children in their workforce only forces these children to turn to more dangerous and exploitive professions such as stone-crushing, street hustling and prostitution.  For example, in the 1990s, the U.S. banned carpet exports from India due to child labor issue and this action caused 5,000 – 7,000 Nepalese children to turn to prostitution.  As long as extremely poor families in developing countries are struggling to survive, children will be forced to work; and laboring away in sweatshops and the garment industries is a far better alternative than hustling and prostituting in the streets.

Child labor is a problem being faced by several governments around the world. The problem is particularly acute in poor countries, where poverty deprives children of a normal childhood and they are forced to earn for the family. Although eliminating child labor overnight is not possible, the efforts of many governments and also non-government organizations are slowly beginning to yield results. Stricter laws are one of the best ways to eradicate this problem. Total eradication of child labor would depend on the joint efforts of government institutions and the private sector, which is the number one employer of children in many countries, non-government organizations and advocacy groups.

Child labor is a problem that has hardly disappeared despite of several conscious efforts on the part of many governments. The problem continues to exist with millions of children generally aged below 14 working to earn a living in many parts of the world. Statistics also indicate that nearly 20,000 children lose their lives in some form of work-related accident, each year. The number of children working is unusually in the Sub-Sahara African region. It is not that there are no strict laws preventing child labor. The problem lies in no one enforcing these laws. There is also a limit to what non-profit organizations and advocacy groups can do. Finally it is the respective governments who have to compliment the effort of non-profit organizations and advocacy groups.