I have had a crazy week and there have been several issues in and out of my mind this week but I am having trouble concentrating on just one topic. Our class readings this week were about family, marriage and exploitation. I find it morbidly funny that my mind can actually make a connection between all three of these topics. Of course family and marriage can easily be put together if taken at face value. But if you try to break down the words and define them while attaching them to every type of relationship you know exists today; I think you will find that the two being tied together is much trickier under the surface. Now take what you know of children and women being exploited and think in the frame set of someone who is poor and just wanting to be loved. If you are a family member, say a mother and someone offers to “make your daughter’s life so much better” you become overwhelmed with the prospects of happiness for her and believe she will be married and live a better life than you can give her. The problem is though, the girl never gets married and becomes a servant and is perhaps beaten daily. Now you have the three terms entirely connected but there is no feeling of harmony. A family lost a child, a man got a cheap slave through exploitation, and what the hell, and marriage was only needed for thought. I wish I could paint a prettier picture for you but this is where the things I have read and felt this week has led me.
Blog 7 – Family, Marriage & Exploitation
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