Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to never leave a child alone in a vehicle.
Have you ever thought of yourself as a potential murderer? Many of .
you would probably say "no" to this question, but you might be .
unintentionally. Millions of kids are left alone in vehicles everyday by .
potential murders. You may not know it, but vehicles can be very .
deadly to a child. When you leave a child unattended in a vehicle to .
run a few errands, you are subjecting them to possible death; .
therefore making you a potential murder.
II. While in high school, I used to baby-sit two little boys ages 2 and .
4. From that experience, I know how easy it is to want to just let the .
children sit in the car while you run in the store for a minute. This .
seems like a better plan than to waste 5 to 10 more minutes trying to .
get the kids out of their seatbelts and into the store when you only .
plan to pick up one item in the store anyways, but this is a very bad .
idea for the life of the children.
III. There have been thousands of children to die or be injured while left .
unattended in vehicles every year. According to Miriam E. Tucker in .
the Pediatric News journal, "approximately 9,160 children aged 14 .
years or younger were injured and 78 were killed when left .
unattended in or around motor vehicles from July 2000 to June 2001.".
IV. This is a risk for children that everyone should think about, not just .
parents. We all have either little brothers or sisters, cousins, nieces, .
or nephews that require attention while around a motorized vehicle.
V. No child should ever be left alone in a vehicle, because of the many .
potential dangers that vehicles expose to children.
VI. Just a few of the many dangers of vehicles to children include being .
trapped inside vehicles where temperatures can reach deadly levels .
Secondly, she did not tell him that she had any children. Third, the fiancé refused Mary because of the daughter; he did not want any children at all. ... Was she aware that she can kill her child by leaving him unattended for the week. ... She was clearly not aware of what she was doing when she left the child unattended. ... If she could leave her baby unattended, she could kill him as well. ...
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, An estimated 115 children were the victims of stereotypical kidnapping. ... The unfortunate result is that children have lost a good deal of independence. ... According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, unattended free play time is essential to healthy child development and is a right of every child. Allowing children more independence helps children develop new competencies that lead to enhanced confidence and the resiliency they will need to face future challenges. ... Parents - cut the umbilical cord, stop infan...
Children who are unlucky enough to have severely unstable parents have no choice, they adapt to their circumstance as best they can, lessons ARE drawn and comfort is gotten in whatever manner is available to them. ... Too often, I hear people describe children with serious behavioral problems in terms of their conduct ("brat" is a pretty common choice), when the focus in these instances should be a consideration of what is going on behind closed doors. ... A child with serious behavioral problems is being neglected or abused, just like a cat with an unattended sore is...unattended. ...
Mothers who abuse alcohol or drugs are preoccupied with their addictions, are either drunk or hung-over when their children are present and often become violent when the children place demands or become irritable. ... Furthermore, the mother frequently leaves the children unattended for extended periods of time with frequent compromises of health and safety. Neglect is the major reason that children are removed from the home in which parents have alcohol or other drug problems. Domestic Violence: A 1998 study cited by Womenspace indicates that 70% of men who abuse their partners also abuse t...
About 1 million children are abused every year in the United States. ... Abandoned children often feel as if they are not as good or worth as much as other childern. ... Some incidents of child abuse are not necessarily done on purpose such as someone leaving their child in the car or unattended in a public place. ... With the new laws being passed you would think the amount of children being abandoned would be dropping. I hope that one day these laws will begin helping people and children especially the safe haven law. ...
Children were more likely to prepare their own meals and eat by themselves. ... Children tend to worry about who would take care of them. ... Over three-quarters of the entire group was consciously preoccupied with the concern that needs in the present and in their future would go unattended. ... Aside from all the worry and fear that children of all ages had to go through, more than half of the children in one study, where the children were questioned about their divorced parents, were openly tearful, moody, and pervasively sad. ... Temper tantrums increased in the youngest children, a...
While Jack and the rest of the choir left the fire unattended to go hunt, a ship passed by. ... Freud explains to us that children develop the Superego last of the three components of the brain, and ignore it for the first while of its existence. ...
Chapter 5, page 53: "Her prison-door was thrown open and she came forth into the sunshine- Chapter 5, page 54: "But now with this unattended walk from the prison-door, began the daily custom." ... Chapter 24, page 178: " some children were at play, when they beheld a tall women, in a gray robe, approach the cottage-door." ... Chapter 5, page 53: "Perhaps there was a more real torture at her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison- Chapter 8, page 80: "As they descended the steps it is averred that the lattice of a chamber-window was thrown open- Chapter 11, pag...
I"m going to explain each one, their symptoms, and how they could affect children who have to endure them. ... The physical signs are abandonment, unattended medical needs, consistent lack of supervision, consistent hunger, inappropriate dress, poor hygiene, lice, distended stomach, emaciated, and inadequate nutrition. ... The affects of abuse on children can be very grim. ... These children have already been negatively affected but they can be helped. ... All of the children need help if they are expected to live out their lives as normal adults. ...