I chose a piece in the Los Angeles Times titled "Punishing California parents, unfairly". The article is about how the law is not always fair when it comes to parents loosing custody of their children due to past bad incidents in their lives (as teens, etc) that might not even be relevant any more, nor relevant to their parenting skills. The author gives a few examples as anecdotal references of unfair cases where parents have lost their children to child protective services or child welfare workers. The author uses appeal to ethos, logos and pathos to give her/his opinion. The author's main opinion is that though there might have been "neglection" in the cases that she narrated in the article, doesn't call to take the children or siblings from parents.
I agree with the author, I believe that some things are circumstantial and that because some of those unfortunate cases happened to a parent, it does not mean that this would happened again with the same child or their children.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-juvenile-20120710,0,2228322.story
3 comments:
That particular case has more going on than what's said in the article. It's the same with most news these days. They leave out the facts to tailor the article to support their own anarchist agendas. Facts such as 20 people living in that dude's house, and one of his other kids having teeth that were so rotten that they needed to be taken out.
Having said that I'll comment on the point. I cannot even fathom being held accountable as an adult for my mistakes when I was 16 years old.
Yeah this is a tricky subject because you want to honor the rights parents have with their children but at the same time if their is abuse you want to step in and protect the children. Very good points throughout the blog
Very sad, it's unfortunate to hear not only that "William" this guy loses his daughter to death, but then gets his two children taken away by laws. This author made a good appeal to pathos, it had me thinking of a lot of things as I was reading it. :(
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