Persuasive Speech Outline On Child Abuse
Persuasive Speech Outline
Topic: Child Abuse
General Purpose: To Persuade
Specific Purpose: I would like to audience to understand the life of a child who is abused and engage them into helping and preventing this from happening. They Need You
I. Introduction:
1. Toys, Ice cream, ABC songs, candy, giggles and smiles are memories everyone should have from their childhood, but they are not. Tears and silence are memoires of many children who are sexually abused. Today I will be talking about what goes on in an abused child’s life and the causes and effects of why they go through this and what the outcomes are.
2. I would like to persuade the audience by showing them the effects of support and statistics. The changed lives of children …show more content…
of what may become even more from their support.
3. Lastly, I will summarize my points and hopefully have succeeded in persuading the audience on increasing their efforts to help children who have been abused.
Transition: I will start of smoothly describing the methods of trying to persuade the audience to be aware of child abuse.
Body:
I.
The reasons and the consequences of maltreatment o children.
A. I would like to mention the different reasons for abuse
1. According to Causes and Effects of Child Abuse by Melissa J. Doak, there are all many factors that contribute to child abuse. Such as, poverty, alcohol and substance abuse, domestic violence, and neglect of the child.
2. Two of the main factors that also cause child abuse is psychological problems and the family structure.
3. Single-parent families appear to be at greater risk of child maltreatment, especially fathers, and the children have a higher risk of physical abuse.
B. Consequences of childhood maltreatment
4. Childhood Victimization: Early Adversity, Later Psychopathology by Melissa J, Doak in Child Abuse mentions Cathy Spatz Widom who focused on 908 children who were abused and 667 children who were not.
5. He theory suggested that childhood physical abuse increases the likelihood of arrest and of committing violent crime during the victim 's later years. The children who were abused were proven to be more likely to become juveniles.
Transition: Now that you have a general idea of the cause and effects of child abuse, I will tell them about the different statistics of children and how help as effected the children’s …show more content…
lives
II. How the states treat the kids and how they are so many children who still need help and what has been done to try to help.
A. According to Every Child Matters Education Fund. "Tax-Funded Programs Reduce Child Abuse and Neglect." Child Abuse. Ed. Heidi Williams there are red and blue states. The red states are ten states that still need to work more for their children to be aided from abused parents.
1. Book: 'Red ' State Children at Much Greater Risk than Youths in 'Blue ' States," Every Child Matters Education Fund, January 24, 2007 mentions that “There are more uninsured children in Texas (1.24 million) than there are in 26 other states combined, including such large-population states as Oregon, Minnesota, Louisiana, Colorado, and Wisconsin."
2. A child in the red states is twice more likely to die by the age of 14 than in any other state.
B. There have been many ideas to help the children such as the “Invest in Kids” agenda from Every Child Matters Education Fund. "Tax-Funded Programs Reduce Child Abuse and Neglect." Child Abuse. Ed. Heidi Williams
1. "Homeland Insecurity" outlines a 10-year, $500 billion "Invest in Kids" agenda to improve the life chances of all U.S. children, regardless of where they live
2. Intensify federal efforts to reduce child abuse and neglect. Nearly three million reports of child abuse and neglect are made annually. Proven programs exist to prevent and treat child abuse, a widespread problem that contributes to many other social ills. The Every Child Matters Education Fund opposes any attempt by the Administration and Congress to block-grant the Title IV-E foster care program.
3. “After-School Programs,” Promote after-school programs that provide learning activities and connect the caring adults. After-school programs have been shown to help prevent crime, drug use, and teen pregnancy for kids who were once abused.
Transition: Now you are informed about just how many states are barely making it, especially Texas, and what the states have been trying to achieve, however, it is not possible to do so without the help of its citizens.
III. What can the community do and why should it happen? Why should you care? My final argument to why the audience should pay attention to this crucial situation.
A. Have you ever heard of Kelsey Briggs? She was about three years old when she died. Her stepfather kicked her in the stomach very hard, which caused homicide. Poor Kelsey suffered from child abuse her whole life and that is something that should not be ignored. Child abuse still exists today and it happens to many children in the United States. There should be something done to prevent child abuse from happening so that the lives of many children should not suffer.
1. According to Putting Families First." Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources. Ed. K. Lee Lerner to why we should help, With more than half a million children in foster care, and a patchwork system of state policies, each differing from the next, many politicians and child development researchers consider the foster care system to be in crisis, with children "aging out" and living on the streets, children placed in questionable foster care homes, and a focus on family reunification that often leaves the child in limbo for years.
2. Prevention efforts build on family strengths. Through prevention activities such as parent education, home visitation, and parent support groups, many families are able to find the support they need to stay together and care for their children in their homes and communities.
B. The programs you start working on and start helping out with making these children lives better from all the hardship they had to go through
1. Prevention efforts build on family strengths. Through prevention activities such as parent education, home visitation, and parent support groups, many families are able to find the support they need to stay together and care for their children in their homes and communities. Sourced from Families First." Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources. Ed. K. Lee Lerner
2. In many communities across the country, volunteers are making significant contributions to ensuring the healthy development of children in need. In New Mexico, AmeriCorps volunteers provide one-on-one support, mentoring, and other wrap-around services to pregnant and parenting teens enrolled in their GRADS program. The program is designed to help the teen’s graduate, improve their parenting skills, and foster self-sufficiency.
3. One way to help the children is to involve the local schools. . Display literature on child abuse prevention at local libraries, or ask the library to develop a reading list on child abuse and where help can be found. Spread the word on bus placards and billboards or through television and radio PSAs.
Transition: You now understand the steps to take to help these children and to take further action by understanding what goes on in their lives
IV.
Conclusion
I. The audience was told about the life of a child and how the harms of abuse may affect them.
II. I summarized some points about how some states are in need more than others, and how the community has been trying to obtain this aid
III. Lastly I mentioned why these children need the audiences help, and I hope this speech has persuaded you to go find an organization today or to just spread the word and help in any way they can.
Work Cited
1. "Causes and Effects of Child Abuse." Child Abuse and Domestic Violence. Melissa J. Doak. 2009 ed. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Information Plus Reference Series. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 6 Aug. 2014.
2. "Putting Families First." Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources. Ed. K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 138-141. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 6 Aug. 2014.
3. Every Child Matters Education Fund. "Tax-Funded Programs Reduce Child Abuse and Neglect." Child Abuse. Ed. Heidi Williams. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Book: 'Red ' State Children at Much Greater Risk than Youths in 'Blue ' States." 2007. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 6 Aug.
2014.
Topic: Child Abuse
General Purpose: To Persuade
Specific Purpose: I would like to audience to understand the life of a child who is abused and engage them into helping and preventing this from happening. They Need You
I. Introduction:
1. Toys, Ice cream, ABC songs, candy, giggles and smiles are memories everyone should have from their childhood, but they are not. Tears and silence are memoires of many children who are sexually abused. Today I will be talking about what goes on in an abused child’s life and the causes and effects of why they go through this and what the outcomes are.
2. I would like to persuade the audience by showing them the effects of support and statistics. The changed lives of children …show more content…
of what may become even more from their support.
3. Lastly, I will summarize my points and hopefully have succeeded in persuading the audience on increasing their efforts to help children who have been abused.
Transition: I will start of smoothly describing the methods of trying to persuade the audience to be aware of child abuse.
Body:
I.
The reasons and the consequences of maltreatment o children.
A. I would like to mention the different reasons for abuse
1. According to Causes and Effects of Child Abuse by Melissa J. Doak, there are all many factors that contribute to child abuse. Such as, poverty, alcohol and substance abuse, domestic violence, and neglect of the child.
2. Two of the main factors that also cause child abuse is psychological problems and the family structure.
3. Single-parent families appear to be at greater risk of child maltreatment, especially fathers, and the children have a higher risk of physical abuse.
B. Consequences of childhood maltreatment
4. Childhood Victimization: Early Adversity, Later Psychopathology by Melissa J, Doak in Child Abuse mentions Cathy Spatz Widom who focused on 908 children who were abused and 667 children who were not.
5. He theory suggested that childhood physical abuse increases the likelihood of arrest and of committing violent crime during the victim 's later years. The children who were abused were proven to be more likely to become juveniles.
Transition: Now that you have a general idea of the cause and effects of child abuse, I will tell them about the different statistics of children and how help as effected the children’s …show more content…
lives
II. How the states treat the kids and how they are so many children who still need help and what has been done to try to help.
A. According to Every Child Matters Education Fund. "Tax-Funded Programs Reduce Child Abuse and Neglect." Child Abuse. Ed. Heidi Williams there are red and blue states. The red states are ten states that still need to work more for their children to be aided from abused parents.
1. Book: 'Red ' State Children at Much Greater Risk than Youths in 'Blue ' States," Every Child Matters Education Fund, January 24, 2007 mentions that “There are more uninsured children in Texas (1.24 million) than there are in 26 other states combined, including such large-population states as Oregon, Minnesota, Louisiana, Colorado, and Wisconsin."
2. A child in the red states is twice more likely to die by the age of 14 than in any other state.
B. There have been many ideas to help the children such as the “Invest in Kids” agenda from Every Child Matters Education Fund. "Tax-Funded Programs Reduce Child Abuse and Neglect." Child Abuse. Ed. Heidi Williams
1. "Homeland Insecurity" outlines a 10-year, $500 billion "Invest in Kids" agenda to improve the life chances of all U.S. children, regardless of where they live
2. Intensify federal efforts to reduce child abuse and neglect. Nearly three million reports of child abuse and neglect are made annually. Proven programs exist to prevent and treat child abuse, a widespread problem that contributes to many other social ills. The Every Child Matters Education Fund opposes any attempt by the Administration and Congress to block-grant the Title IV-E foster care program.
3. “After-School Programs,” Promote after-school programs that provide learning activities and connect the caring adults. After-school programs have been shown to help prevent crime, drug use, and teen pregnancy for kids who were once abused.
Transition: Now you are informed about just how many states are barely making it, especially Texas, and what the states have been trying to achieve, however, it is not possible to do so without the help of its citizens.
III. What can the community do and why should it happen? Why should you care? My final argument to why the audience should pay attention to this crucial situation.
A. Have you ever heard of Kelsey Briggs? She was about three years old when she died. Her stepfather kicked her in the stomach very hard, which caused homicide. Poor Kelsey suffered from child abuse her whole life and that is something that should not be ignored. Child abuse still exists today and it happens to many children in the United States. There should be something done to prevent child abuse from happening so that the lives of many children should not suffer.
1. According to Putting Families First." Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources. Ed. K. Lee Lerner to why we should help, With more than half a million children in foster care, and a patchwork system of state policies, each differing from the next, many politicians and child development researchers consider the foster care system to be in crisis, with children "aging out" and living on the streets, children placed in questionable foster care homes, and a focus on family reunification that often leaves the child in limbo for years.
2. Prevention efforts build on family strengths. Through prevention activities such as parent education, home visitation, and parent support groups, many families are able to find the support they need to stay together and care for their children in their homes and communities.
B. The programs you start working on and start helping out with making these children lives better from all the hardship they had to go through
1. Prevention efforts build on family strengths. Through prevention activities such as parent education, home visitation, and parent support groups, many families are able to find the support they need to stay together and care for their children in their homes and communities. Sourced from Families First." Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources. Ed. K. Lee Lerner
2. In many communities across the country, volunteers are making significant contributions to ensuring the healthy development of children in need. In New Mexico, AmeriCorps volunteers provide one-on-one support, mentoring, and other wrap-around services to pregnant and parenting teens enrolled in their GRADS program. The program is designed to help the teen’s graduate, improve their parenting skills, and foster self-sufficiency.
3. One way to help the children is to involve the local schools. . Display literature on child abuse prevention at local libraries, or ask the library to develop a reading list on child abuse and where help can be found. Spread the word on bus placards and billboards or through television and radio PSAs.
Transition: You now understand the steps to take to help these children and to take further action by understanding what goes on in their lives
IV.
Conclusion
I. The audience was told about the life of a child and how the harms of abuse may affect them.
II. I summarized some points about how some states are in need more than others, and how the community has been trying to obtain this aid
III. Lastly I mentioned why these children need the audiences help, and I hope this speech has persuaded you to go find an organization today or to just spread the word and help in any way they can.
Work Cited
1. "Causes and Effects of Child Abuse." Child Abuse and Domestic Violence. Melissa J. Doak. 2009 ed. Detroit: Gale, 2009. Information Plus Reference Series. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 6 Aug. 2014.
2. "Putting Families First." Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources. Ed. K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 138-141. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 6 Aug. 2014.
3. Every Child Matters Education Fund. "Tax-Funded Programs Reduce Child Abuse and Neglect." Child Abuse. Ed. Heidi Williams. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Book: 'Red ' State Children at Much Greater Risk than Youths in 'Blue ' States." 2007. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 6 Aug.
2014.