How To Raise A Child
Imagine you are just cruising along in the car, the window’s down and you are looking out observing your surroundings, you see a large, hilly, green field that seems to go on forever,you’re letting the sun shine on your face. You look ahead of the car and see a box and you hear a sound, “ Oh no! is that a box full of kittens? or puppies?” You think to yourself. You look closer and as you approach it you’re close enough to look inside and you’re going slow enough, just slow enough, to see what’s inside.You catch a glimpse and you quickly back up into your seat, slightly horrified by what you just witnessed; then you tell your mom what you think you just saw. “Mom I think I just saw a baby in that box” (GrIngberg and Sholchet, 2015).
Now picture this, you are walking along the side of the road there's a large field of green grass on the right side of the road and rows of …show more content…
tall trees on the left. You’re walking, walking, walking.You round the corner onto Susquehanna Road and you see a box at the base of a group of trees. In big red letters it says FRAGILE: DO NOT OPEN WITH KNIFE. You look around, there are no houses nearby, someone must have dumped it so that means it’s probably not even important and whatever’s inside is probably not all that fragile. So you decide to walk up to the box and disregarding the label, open up the large, brown box with your knife. A wave of foul smelling air charges up your nostrils as you peer inside, “a doll?” You mutter. But then you look closer and it starts to click this is no doll, this is a dead little boy”(Bovsun, 2014).
Who could do such a thing, leave a boy dead in a box on the side of the road, or a 2-3month old baby girl left alive to fend for herself on the side of the road?
Those were based on true stories, the boy in the box, 1957; a girl left on the side of the road, last year, 2015. This isn’t old news. This isn’t new news.
It happened then; it happens now; it will continue happening in the future unless something is done. Abuse. Neglect. Abandonment. According to americanhumane.org, “In 2005, an estimated 1,460 children died as a result of abuse or neglect. The majority...of these children were 3... or younger. Most child fatalities...happened at the hands of parents. Not all fatalities were the result of the physical trauma of abuse. Neglect accounted for almost half...of all fatality cases.” So what can be done?
What do we need to do? We need an evaluation to ensure that those who have children are ready, willing, and fit to raise a child. Before having children this evaluation should reveal the nature of the parents, that they will not abuse nor neglect their child and ensure that they will nurture them. If you had a child without authorization you would be fined a large sum of money, hopefully maintaining cooperation and form of punishment, without punishment the evaluation wouldn’t be taken seriously. It’s for protection, not oppression. I’m not trying to enact a One-Child policy, or limit the number of children per family. This would be for protection, for the well-being of children, neglected, scorned, abused, forgotten, left to fend for themselves with no one to love them, or care for them, or protect them. Maybe we can’t go into every single neighborhood every single house every single family to know what goes on behind closed doors, but what better is it not to do nothing and allow for the statistics to continue as “a child [being] abused or neglected every 36
seconds”(Day).
Do you think this is too extreme? Would you like to stand in front of one of the “60,000 children...reported being abused or neglected each week in America” and tell them that the trends will continue and no one will do anything to help those like them (Moulene, 2011)?
Many of you may have your driver’s license or permit or just started driving school. Now why do we need have these lessons, and classes, and tests, and driving hours and observation hours? It all may seem long and tedious to the eager teenager that just wants the key to freedom, that is if you want to drive at all. But if you don’t take these lessons you won’t be know how to drive properly, if you don’t know how to drive properly you could crash, if you crash you could scare, or injure, or kill yourself or others. If we have to be tested to drive around an inanimate object, why not before bringing a living human being into the world?
In what world does a caring mother maim, mistreat, or maliciously harm their own flesh and blood? Or a father forget, forsake, or feel nothing for their own child? We need this evaluation to place and keep children in the loving homes they deserve. Doing something like this may not bring back those children killed by neglect and abuse of uncaring parents, but it could help those of the future.
Now picture this, you are walking along the side of the road there's a large field of green grass on the right side of the road and rows of …show more content…
tall trees on the left. You’re walking, walking, walking.You round the corner onto Susquehanna Road and you see a box at the base of a group of trees. In big red letters it says FRAGILE: DO NOT OPEN WITH KNIFE. You look around, there are no houses nearby, someone must have dumped it so that means it’s probably not even important and whatever’s inside is probably not all that fragile. So you decide to walk up to the box and disregarding the label, open up the large, brown box with your knife. A wave of foul smelling air charges up your nostrils as you peer inside, “a doll?” You mutter. But then you look closer and it starts to click this is no doll, this is a dead little boy”(Bovsun, 2014).
Who could do such a thing, leave a boy dead in a box on the side of the road, or a 2-3month old baby girl left alive to fend for herself on the side of the road?
Those were based on true stories, the boy in the box, 1957; a girl left on the side of the road, last year, 2015. This isn’t old news. This isn’t new news.
It happened then; it happens now; it will continue happening in the future unless something is done. Abuse. Neglect. Abandonment. According to americanhumane.org, “In 2005, an estimated 1,460 children died as a result of abuse or neglect. The majority...of these children were 3... or younger. Most child fatalities...happened at the hands of parents. Not all fatalities were the result of the physical trauma of abuse. Neglect accounted for almost half...of all fatality cases.” So what can be done?
What do we need to do? We need an evaluation to ensure that those who have children are ready, willing, and fit to raise a child. Before having children this evaluation should reveal the nature of the parents, that they will not abuse nor neglect their child and ensure that they will nurture them. If you had a child without authorization you would be fined a large sum of money, hopefully maintaining cooperation and form of punishment, without punishment the evaluation wouldn’t be taken seriously. It’s for protection, not oppression. I’m not trying to enact a One-Child policy, or limit the number of children per family. This would be for protection, for the well-being of children, neglected, scorned, abused, forgotten, left to fend for themselves with no one to love them, or care for them, or protect them. Maybe we can’t go into every single neighborhood every single house every single family to know what goes on behind closed doors, but what better is it not to do nothing and allow for the statistics to continue as “a child [being] abused or neglected every 36
seconds”(Day).
Do you think this is too extreme? Would you like to stand in front of one of the “60,000 children...reported being abused or neglected each week in America” and tell them that the trends will continue and no one will do anything to help those like them (Moulene, 2011)?
Many of you may have your driver’s license or permit or just started driving school. Now why do we need have these lessons, and classes, and tests, and driving hours and observation hours? It all may seem long and tedious to the eager teenager that just wants the key to freedom, that is if you want to drive at all. But if you don’t take these lessons you won’t be know how to drive properly, if you don’t know how to drive properly you could crash, if you crash you could scare, or injure, or kill yourself or others. If we have to be tested to drive around an inanimate object, why not before bringing a living human being into the world?
In what world does a caring mother maim, mistreat, or maliciously harm their own flesh and blood? Or a father forget, forsake, or feel nothing for their own child? We need this evaluation to place and keep children in the loving homes they deserve. Doing something like this may not bring back those children killed by neglect and abuse of uncaring parents, but it could help those of the future.