Being Mommy Behind Bars By Terrence Bogans Essay

Life can inspire change. One man who was inspired by life was Terrence Bogans, the writer of “Being Mommy Behind Bars: The Psychological Benefits of Child Visitation with Incarcerated Mothers.” Bogans’ essay was about how child visitations can help parents with the mental stress of being incarcerated. He had many strong points about this argument, great logos, and a good pathos. But, Bogans did not present many ethos and more information about his main part of the argument. Terrence Bogans had a lot of information to back up his topic, supported his research with a good testimony, and expressed many counterarguments. However, Bogans spend a lot of time explaining and describing the supporting grounds instead of the main idea and those points weaken his essay and created confusion about what is the main topic. The topic of this paper was lost under a lot of information and supporting grounds. The topic of how visitations helped of the mental stress of being incarcerated was only showcased near the end of the essay and the support ground of the barriers that imprisoned mothers and fathers must go
One example of this was the counterargument of Costa, a legal scholar, who argued how visitation in prison can advance to mental harm to a child (611). But, the writer showcased a personal testimony and a scholar, Stewarts, who analyzed “there is no evidence that mere exposure to the prison environment leads to long-harm in children” (612.) These counterarguments then rebuttals system helped show how he was prepared for many counterarguments. Bogans did a wonderful job of indicating concessions. The writer stated how Beckerman bought up problems of how scheduling visitation with incarcerated mothers can take up time, money, and resources of prison system (615). He had an interesting and strong rebuttal for the concession and understand how to use rebuttals to add credibility to his