SOCIETYGlobal Elder Abuse?  His mother was sitting in the
outpatient waiting area at the hospital for hours - did she
not have a ride? No, her son and his wife were at work, and
did not want to pick her up till they got
done...
Shocking? Not really? In India? Possibly...but
this was in the United States...
Is our
instant-gratification society making us shy away from what
is inevitable for all of us? As the article
linked below comments, elder abuse is rampant - and we still
bury our heads in the sand..."Countless adults are victims
of abuse through self-neglect, and institutional abuse often
receives the most media attention; however, by far the most
common abusers of the elderly are family members, especially
spouses and adult children. The low reporting rate of elder
abuse therefore makes unfortunate sense: Victims would often
prefer to endure the abuse rather than risk the loss of
independence, being removed from their family, or possibly
being forced to move into a nursing home.
SOCIETYGreed and Slavery redux?  It was 2002 - a group
of Indian American volunteers, and the local India Association
of North Texas (IANT.org) in Dallas got wind of a situation in
nearby Tulsa, OK, where apparently a group of Indian men were
being held in slavery like conditions by a company which paid
a recruiter to trick them to coming to the US for a better
life. The volunteers collected supplies and money, and drove
to Tulsa to meet the men, give them support, and publicize
their suffering. Eventually, all of them were freed...click
here for
more details...
Not sure where they are now, but here
we find another similar situation 9 years
later...
"The
recruiter painted a rosy picture of life in the United States
� a well-paid job as a welder at the shipyard company Signal
International, a shared apartment with three other workers,
transportation to and from work and good food. Around 500
other welders and pipefitters from all over India and Gulf
countries were lured by the same recruitment firm with a
similar promise.
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