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Many governments have a shocking record of failing to prosecute sex traffickers. According to a report by the trafficking person report, there is an insignificant percentage of sex trafficking offenses that get reported worldwide. Over 90% of 7000 trafficking cases reported were categorized as sex trafficking (Tong et al., 2017). Such figures are astonishing and confirm how offenders’ scale is unmatched to any other types of crimes. There is also evidence of an unconscionable lack of justice for sex trafficking victims. To combat the issue of sex trafficking, the government should prioritize justice for victims through prosecution. The most effective form of punishment for sex traffickers is imprisonment. I believe those who traffic offenders who are above 20 years should be charged and serve a minimum of 12 years in prison, while those who traffic minors and teens should serve a lifetime in prison.
Various ethnic and racial minorities have been linked to high levels of crime throughout the US’s history. The criminal justice system and crime statistics indicate that individual races are disproportionately linked to the crime. This data shows that there is a relationship between crime and race (Mark & Christopher, 2020). Through the disproportionality hypothesis, it is clear that Hispanics and black Americans are represented disproportionately since they are more involved in crime. The disparity hypothesis shows the relationship between crime and race to having been caused by the unequal treatment of certain races by the criminal justice system. Research data shows that police tend to discriminate people of color than any other races (Mark & Christopher, 2020). This explains the disproportionality seen in crime statistics.
The traditional American family life has changed drastically in recent years. Cohabitation, remarriage and divorce have risen causing a decline in two parent households. The drop in fertility and growth of single parent households has father caused families to be smaller (Brown, 2019). There exist no dominant family forms in the US. The challenge that most families face is caused by the evolving family forms and increased diversity. Raising children in such conditions as caused father challenges in issues like racial discrimination.
Divorce has the ability of making fathers better. Failed marriages cause stress which directly affects father’s ability to parent effectively. By getting a divorce, fathers can become more reflective and relaxed, resulting in them being more present in their children’s lives. Many divorced fathers have also reported having the ability to develop their own parenting styles. This is due to the relief of emotional distress and criticism present in a bad marriage (Lauren, 2019). Failed marriages usually result to arguments of parenting styles causing fathers to be ineffective fathers. Divorce brings about other benefits like single minded focus on children. This is brought about by the scheduled rationed time that is usually present in a parenting arrangement after divorce. In many joint families, mothers are usually the primary parent while the fathers are usually the supporting parent. This dynamic changes with divorce since fathers have one on one time with their children. Contemporary fathers have been reported to value the responsibilities of being a parent. Divorced father have also cemented ties with their children due to the recent kid focus culture (Lauren, 2019). Schools have enabled co-parenting on a neutral ground. Divorce often makes people happier. It makes it easier for parents to perform their role cooperatively and share the challenges and joys of raising their kids.
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Brown, D. L. (2019). A quarter century of trends and changes in the demographic structure of American families. In The family in rural society (pp. 9-25). Routledge.
Lauren Vinopal, 2019, How Divorce Makes Men With Joint Custody Better Fathers, retrieved from: https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/divorce-joint-custody-makes-men-better-fathers/
MARK YEISLEY & CHRISTOPHER P. KREBS, 2020, Race and Crime, retrieved from, https://law.jrank.org/pages/1916/Race-Crime.html
Tong, E., Zadeh, A., Jones, C., & Morency, L. P. (2017, July). Combating human trafficking with multimodal deep models. In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp. 1547-1556).