Persuasive Speech Outline On Child Abuse
Why is it that you need a license to drive a car, practice law, or even fish, but anyone with a healthy reproductive system can bring a child into this world? Parenting is a serious undertaking and anyone who has done raised a child can tell you that it's not an easy task. Parents should be required to pass a minimum competency test and obtain a license before bringing a child into this world. On average there are 3 to 4 million babies born each year in the US. In 2014 264,746 children entered into foster care and only 50,644 children were successfully adopted into a new family. “Every year more than 3.6 million referrals are made to child protection agencies involving more than 6.6 million children”(Childhelp). There are more children being abused and given up then there are being born in the United States. Given this staggering , why are we continuing to allow children to be born to parents who do not know how to treat them or just outright do not want them? After reading my paper, I hope that people will realize that actions need to be taken to protect our children. Clearly the measures we have in place
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today are not working and society needs to come up with a better plan. Requiring people to pass a test demonstrating they at least possess the basic skills required to be parents is a good place to start. This will also help ensure that the people having children actually want them and will hopefully lead to fewer children being placed into a damaging foster system. I would like my audience to understand that children are a privilege, not a right and begin a movement that protects them even before conception. The children being born today will be the leaders of tomorrow, by making sure they are at least born into capable homes we can begin to help them have a better future.
Review of Sources Licensing parenting is not a new topic of discussion, but it is a controversial one. However, not a lot of research has been done to really test the theory. This makes it hard to find sources that discuss parental licensing specifically. I have found two very good articles that examine and support the idea. I found one article in the Rio Library, written by Hugh Lafollette, that takes a researched approach to the topic. This article also looks at, and refutes, the arguments against licensing parents. I have also pulled facts and statistics surrounding child abuse and adoption to support my claim that parents can be just as damaging to children, if not more so, than other activities most of the world currently regulates. I located several case studies on the Arizona Department of Child Safety web page that will illuminate the severity of the child abuse issue. I was able to find other articles that address the negative effects adoption has on children and gives fairly recent adoption related statistics. Currently, I am using two article called "Adoption and Foster Care in America - Adoption Statistics." and "Adoption Issues." that have most of the relevant information I need to make my case. The bulk of my research is being done online as I have not been able to find much print matter on my main subject. This led me to an interesting interview that was conducted between an NPR radio host and Adam Cohen, who wrote a book on the history of forced sterilization. My proposed solution will include suggesting some type of sterilization, so it is important that I understand how it has gone in the past. Another valuable source I located was an online debate on parental licensing at Debate.org. The comments written on debate sites are not generally written by experts in the field or people who have done research, but it does give me an idea of current public perception on my topic. This type of source will allow me to gather arguments from the other side and see what my audience reaction might be so that I can better frame my paper to persuade against their hesitations.
Plan to Collect China's one child policy was recently expanded to allow for two children, and they have been largely successful in regulating births. I would like to locate more sources that examine how they have done this to see what works and what doesn't. I hope to locate this through the Rio Library resource or an online search of China's law database. I also need to make sure that my sterilization plan makes sense medically so further research will need to be done on there. I will look for medical journals and research online. I was able to find more sources than I needed on child abuse and adoption. I may want to incorporate other states child abuse reports as well so that it cannot be argued that only Arizona has this problem. I plan to continue to use the internet as my main source to gather the further information I need due to the vast amount of information available online. This will provide me the time needed to have my research completed in the next week so that I have it ready for my draft paper. I also plan to see if a colleague of mine will let me interview her on the adoption process she is currently going through so that I can better understand the requirements in place today and compare them with requirements I may want to propose. Taking the time to gather the correct information will better prepare me to write my paper and compose my final project.
Overview of Challenges I am the most concerned about not having enough research to fill the page requirement. My plan to avoid this is to be very thorough in my data collection and rely on different pre-writing exercises to make sure my content is appropriate and structured. Also, because I am relying so heavily on the internet for the bulk of my research, I will need to make sure I am diligent when confirming the validity of my sources. Historically childbirth has been seen as a right which will propose a challenge when trying to write a convincing argument for forced sterilization and childbirth licensing. My writing will have to assume a hostile audience because this is such a personal issue. I need to figure out how to successfully compare giving birth to other regulated activities and decide how I want to frame that argument. I worry that this paper will be an uphill battle due to the subject matter, but if my research is solid and my arguments are lucid I hope my audience will be convinced.
Conclusion I know that it will be hard to persuade my readers that this is the right direction to go, but my hope is that when the readers learn how common child abuse and neglect has become the reader will be incited to take action and persuaded that my proposed plan is a step in the right direction.
I will show my audience the unfair bias that allows for adopted parents and people going through assisted reproduction to have requirements place on them, but not people giving birth naturally. While I do plan to outline what my solution will look like, I know that I do not have all the answers right now, because this topic has never been seriously considered by the right people. Hopefully, my paper can become a stepping stone for our society to start trying to figure out how we can make this work for the benefit of our society without infringing on our civil
liberties.
today are not working and society needs to come up with a better plan. Requiring people to pass a test demonstrating they at least possess the basic skills required to be parents is a good place to start. This will also help ensure that the people having children actually want them and will hopefully lead to fewer children being placed into a damaging foster system. I would like my audience to understand that children are a privilege, not a right and begin a movement that protects them even before conception. The children being born today will be the leaders of tomorrow, by making sure they are at least born into capable homes we can begin to help them have a better future.
Review of Sources Licensing parenting is not a new topic of discussion, but it is a controversial one. However, not a lot of research has been done to really test the theory. This makes it hard to find sources that discuss parental licensing specifically. I have found two very good articles that examine and support the idea. I found one article in the Rio Library, written by Hugh Lafollette, that takes a researched approach to the topic. This article also looks at, and refutes, the arguments against licensing parents. I have also pulled facts and statistics surrounding child abuse and adoption to support my claim that parents can be just as damaging to children, if not more so, than other activities most of the world currently regulates. I located several case studies on the Arizona Department of Child Safety web page that will illuminate the severity of the child abuse issue. I was able to find other articles that address the negative effects adoption has on children and gives fairly recent adoption related statistics. Currently, I am using two article called "Adoption and Foster Care in America - Adoption Statistics." and "Adoption Issues." that have most of the relevant information I need to make my case. The bulk of my research is being done online as I have not been able to find much print matter on my main subject. This led me to an interesting interview that was conducted between an NPR radio host and Adam Cohen, who wrote a book on the history of forced sterilization. My proposed solution will include suggesting some type of sterilization, so it is important that I understand how it has gone in the past. Another valuable source I located was an online debate on parental licensing at Debate.org. The comments written on debate sites are not generally written by experts in the field or people who have done research, but it does give me an idea of current public perception on my topic. This type of source will allow me to gather arguments from the other side and see what my audience reaction might be so that I can better frame my paper to persuade against their hesitations.
Plan to Collect China's one child policy was recently expanded to allow for two children, and they have been largely successful in regulating births. I would like to locate more sources that examine how they have done this to see what works and what doesn't. I hope to locate this through the Rio Library resource or an online search of China's law database. I also need to make sure that my sterilization plan makes sense medically so further research will need to be done on there. I will look for medical journals and research online. I was able to find more sources than I needed on child abuse and adoption. I may want to incorporate other states child abuse reports as well so that it cannot be argued that only Arizona has this problem. I plan to continue to use the internet as my main source to gather the further information I need due to the vast amount of information available online. This will provide me the time needed to have my research completed in the next week so that I have it ready for my draft paper. I also plan to see if a colleague of mine will let me interview her on the adoption process she is currently going through so that I can better understand the requirements in place today and compare them with requirements I may want to propose. Taking the time to gather the correct information will better prepare me to write my paper and compose my final project.
Overview of Challenges I am the most concerned about not having enough research to fill the page requirement. My plan to avoid this is to be very thorough in my data collection and rely on different pre-writing exercises to make sure my content is appropriate and structured. Also, because I am relying so heavily on the internet for the bulk of my research, I will need to make sure I am diligent when confirming the validity of my sources. Historically childbirth has been seen as a right which will propose a challenge when trying to write a convincing argument for forced sterilization and childbirth licensing. My writing will have to assume a hostile audience because this is such a personal issue. I need to figure out how to successfully compare giving birth to other regulated activities and decide how I want to frame that argument. I worry that this paper will be an uphill battle due to the subject matter, but if my research is solid and my arguments are lucid I hope my audience will be convinced.
Conclusion I know that it will be hard to persuade my readers that this is the right direction to go, but my hope is that when the readers learn how common child abuse and neglect has become the reader will be incited to take action and persuaded that my proposed plan is a step in the right direction.
I will show my audience the unfair bias that allows for adopted parents and people going through assisted reproduction to have requirements place on them, but not people giving birth naturally. While I do plan to outline what my solution will look like, I know that I do not have all the answers right now, because this topic has never been seriously considered by the right people. Hopefully, my paper can become a stepping stone for our society to start trying to figure out how we can make this work for the benefit of our society without infringing on our civil
liberties.