This document discusses several social issues including sexual discrimination, teenage pregnancies, gay rights, homelessness, drug abuse, animal rights, racism, class, race relations, inner-city areas, ethnic minorities, human rights, single parent families, and bullying. For each issue, it identifies the problem and proposes a potential solution, such as promoting education, acceptance, equal rights, social and economic assistance for disadvantaged groups, and punishment for abusive behavior.

1. SOCIAL ISSUES
IN THE WORLD
Noemi Redondo Balboa
Angel Ortega Moreno
1st Batxillerat “A”
Course 2011-2012

2. SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION
 Problem:
Women are less valued than
men.
Especially in the work.
 Solution:
Justice must punish people who
think that women are more inferior
than men.

3. TEENAGE PREGNANCIES
 Problem:
Sometimes teenagers don’t use
suitable methods of contraception
and it cause the teenage
pregnancies.
 Solution:
That adolescents are well informed
and they are more careful.

4. GAY RIGHTS
 Problem:
The gays aren’t accepted in
the society because the people don’t
see it right, and they haven’t got the
same rights than the pairs of girl and
woman.
 Solution:
The people should try to accept all
the sexual tastes of the people
because they aren’t different to you.

5. HOMELESSNESS
 Problem:
There are a lot of people that live on
the street because they haven’t got
money and work.
 Solution:
This people should look for work
and try to reintegrate into society.

6. DRUG ABUSE
 Problem:
There are a lot of people, especially
teenagers, that they are in drugs
and normally they are addicted in
drugs.
 Solution:
They should go to drug
treatment centers to get off
drugs

7. ANIMAL RIGHTS
 Problem:
There are a lot of problems that
affect to animals because the people
don’t respect the animal rights, for
example, a lot of animals are killed
by the people to make clothes with
their skin.
 Solution:
Justice must punish people who
don’t respect the animal rights.

8. RACISM
 Problem:
A lot of people discriminate other
people by their color skin or their
nationality.
 Solution:
The people should to try accept all
the people because all the people
are persons and have the same
Rights.

9. CLASS
 Problem:
Some societies are divided by
social class, the rich people have a
lot of money and a lot of
advantages, and the poor people
don’t have money and they live in
very bad conditions.
 Solution:
Society should help to disadvantaged
people in order to eliminate
social classes

10. RACE RELATIONS
 Problem:
The society discriminates
other people because they have
some physical characteristics and
culture different
 Solution:
Promote cooperation
between society from the time
that we are young.

11. INNER-CITY AREAS
 Problem:
The problem is that in the inner-cities there
is much poverty and discrimination.
 Solution:
Each city should invest
more money to live in the
center and the outskirts of
cities.

12. ETHNIC MINORITIES
 Problem:
People discriminate against these
groups of society because of their
language, dialect, race, religion
or historical.
 Solution:
People would have to be
conscious that every
groups of people have
a different culture and
different lifestyle.

13. HUMAN RIGHTS
 Problem:
Although we have rights in the
society aren't applied such as
the human right says because
each society have different
thought.
 Solution:
Society has to make an
effort to collaborate
to implement all human rights.

14. SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES
 Problem:
Problems can be economic,
psychological and also refusal to
have more partners for the simple
fact of having a child.
 Solution:
It should be subsidizing
economically and psychologically
to the parents and not be
rejected for having a child.

15. BULLYING
 Problem:
In many schools there are
children who abuse other
children make fun of them.
 Solution:
In the schools have to
identify abusers and punish
them for an act so serious.

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