Persuasive Essay: Why Doesn T She Leave?

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Why Doesn’t She Leave? Supplemental reading by Jones raises the discussion of the United States “private: versus “public” family. Furthermore, “When the House first passed a Domestic Violence bill in 1980 to prove some emergency services, the Washington Star urged the Senate to vote it down and keep “the long arm of Washington bureaucracy” out of “private life” (Jones, Page 164). In arguing this claim, the shelter for abused women stated, “would weaken the traditional family. Emergency counseling for abused women would break down the emotional ties that make a family unit strong” (Jones, Page 164). In other words, the shelter abused women asserts, that if our democracy would step into our so call “private life,” it would make our family household weak. To a certain extent this makes sense, however, coming from a college student, indeed a future law enforcement officer, I think this is just an excuse for the …show more content…

I would target teacher, kindergarten through high school. The reason why, well when kids get abused, more specifically their parents. Who is the first person that the kid will make contact with? Teachers. For example, in the media site interview, “a child called it,” hosted by Oprah, we learned about David’s childhood story. David Pelzer got abused and mistreated repeatedly by his mother for no particular reason. David was shoved and pushed into the basement, was stabbed, was placed on top of the stove with the stove top on, and most importantly he was emotionally abused. For example, David’s mother had David tell himself, that he’s a bad boy consistently (Mediasite, David Pelzer). In other words, David’s mother would make him manipulate himself and actually believe that he was a bad boy. Further, David Pelzer’s child abuse case was the third worst, out of 38,000 child abuse cases (Mediasite,

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