April 3, 2012
Read online: http://issuu.com/cnews/docs/south_miami_news_4.3.2012/20?viewMode=presentation
April 3, 2012
Read online: http://issuu.com/cnews/docs/south_miami_news_4.3.2012/20?viewMode=presentation
I read this very same information in a Parade Magazine Intelligence Report in the late ’70s that in the furtue, women were going to outstrip men in the workplace, not because they were going to be equals, but because there was going to be a paradigm shift in the job market. Back then, I was a young married career woman in my twenties who was planning to start my family soon and stay home with our firstborn.My then-husband’s career hadn’t quite taken off, and I’d hoped he would have been the primary breadwinner of our family, but as it happened, his plans bottomed out, we had our first-born, but his aspirations never reached their goals, and our marriage ended some years(and second child) later.For the life of me, I never forgot that article, and considered it an omen of things to come. I had researched the status of women’s place in the workforce since then, and as the above poster stated, affirmative action wasn’t just directed at minorities, but at women who were easier to control and would need to hold onto their jobs to keep their families afloat.I know, I was one of them long and ever ago.Though I then made more money than my husband, I was always wary of the powers that be that dictated how our society steered those in the grip of their control and how it affected our lives. I am no longer in the workforce, due to a disability, but it breaks my heart to see families suffer the same fate so many years later, seeing the pain and heartache they are now suffering is just an outrage of the highest order. I am so grateful this important information is surfacing, so people will learn more about this development and what to do about it.
My wife, 24 at the time, was 18 weeks pregnant with our 2nd child when diongased. We live in St. Louis, MO, and I must say, I thank God that we did. The hospital, Barnes-Jewish (The Washington University School of Medicine) is one of the leading cancer hospitals, and they were knowledgeable when it came to Rhabdo. It’s a wild disease. Unknown for certain what causes it, unknown for certain how exactly to treat it, but our doctors did pretty good!! I myself became a self proclaimed expert on the disease, did some speeches and projects on it. It is much more prevalent among children ages 10 and under, I believe some 80% of the time. It is also found more rampant among young teens than adults, and each year, approx. 12 thousand Ameicans are diongased with some form of a sarcoma Among those 12 or so thousand, only 300 will have rhabdomyosarcoma!!! Here in the states, thats less than a 1/1 million chance of having that particular cancer.