👧🏻 Children in the middle ages faced similar adversities than those available to us today 👦🏽
Adversity 1: Being bullied or mocked for being different, being abused by parents/adults
Evidence: "They whisper, and snicker and throw rocks." (Jack the halfwit, pg 31)
Evidence today- "A study reported 1 in 4 Australian students experience bullying. So if you’re being bullied, you’re NOT alone." (Kids helpline Australia)
The evidence I chose suggests that many children nowadays still face bullying and abuse by other children and adults. Jack says that he has been through physical abuse and verbal abuse for being different. I think this adversity has improved, but still exists in households and schools, leaving many children feeling unsafe. I also think now that there is less physical bullying and more cyber and social bullying, due to the more common use of advanced technology. I think that cyber bullying is not dealt with as more as physical bullying, and is easier to get away with, with the power of deleting messages and having the feeling of power behind the screen.
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Adversity 2: Poverty
Evidence Then:
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Evidence Now: "At least 80% of humanity today lives on less than $10 a day, and almost half on $2.50 a day." (GlobalIssues.org) (Janurary 2013)
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Adversity 3: Human trafficking
Evidence then: "Most of them starved, froze to death or were sold into slavery." (Good Masters! Sweet ladies, pg 37, the crusades)
Evidence now:
The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 40.3 million victims of human trafficking globally.
81% of them are trapped in forced labor.
25% of them are children.
75% are women and girls.
The International Labor Organization estimates that forced labor and human trafficking is a $150 billion industry worldwide.
The U.S. Department of Labor has identified 148 goods from 75 countries made by forced and child labor.
In 2017, an estimated 1 out of 7 endangered runaways reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children were likely child sex trafficking victims.
Of those, 88% were in the care of social services or foster care when they ran.
There is no official estimate of the total number of human trafficking victims in the U.S. Polaris estimates that the total number of victims nationally reaches into the hundreds of thousands when estimates of both adults and minors and sex trafficking and labor trafficking are aggregated.