Someone once said that you can tell a lot about a society by the way in which it treats its women and children and that the difficulty today is that it's really impossible today to assess accurately how a society does treat women and children. And it can be suggested that the media is very much so caught up with the War, Global Warming, the economy, Presidential election (Barack all the way!!lol), and to an indefinite degree (which I am very interested in myself). But the media is also doing a very good job with giving us a distorted and dismaying view of a world that is obviously wracked in violence and death when it comes to our women and children.
Today’s society tends to downplay its dirty and dark secrets of the way we really treat millions of our women and children under the guise of 'the right to privacy' that conceals a flood of domestic violence behind closed doors. But we all know that if we could really see how many women and children are routinely physically, sexually and psychologically abused, as many as one in five in every neighborhood, rich and poor, we would be aghast and outraged, this is especially the case in our beloved neighboring developing countries that provides our everyday chocolate, coffee, gold, sugar, carpet, rice, shoes, cloths, etc. In return we give little pay and much demand on the women and children in impoverished communities around the world.
What can we say? In a crisis, the very first people we are quick to protect are the women and children. But it seems like the “women and children” are silently losing priority in relief efforts everyday when we least expect it, thinking that they are safe as long as the Associated Press gives it an ok.
