This Family Shouldn T Have Been Saved Analysis

A good parent is suppose to look after their children. Make sure they 're around good people and keep them away from drugs and violence. A bad parent would do the exact opposite. In her essay, "This Family Shouldn 't Have Been Saved" , Kay S. Hymowitz does explain effective parenting well by mention the condition of the mother and how she was involved with drugs, then she explains the condition the child was in and the people surronding him. A young child brought a .32-caliber to school and shot a classmate in her chest. The outcome was horrific, gun-control lobbyists, school-safety experts were going crazy in support of the victim Kayla. People weren 't willing to accept the fact that the boy grew up in a bad condition. His mother was "involved with drugs" and his father had six children by three different women. He also is in jail for cocaine possession and burglary. Before the incident the child has shown made signs, like fighting at school and stabbing a classmate. The child said he hated everyone and spent much time watching violent T.V. shows and movies. Even thought the State 's Child-Welfare bureaucracy, and the Family Independence Agnecy, were aware of the boy 's condition, they failed to take action. But they claimed they didn 't know about the drugs. But their ideology called "Family preservation", whose goal is to keep children with their biological parents. That ideology made Kayla pay the price with the most gracious thing she had, which is her life. The author then goes into how the mother was convicted for chid abuse which lead to the use of Logos. In the passage the author made use of Logos perfectly. …show more content…
For example, when she said " Tamarla Owens, the boy 's mother, was "involved in drugs" according to an affidavit from the social worker. She also had a 1992 conviction for child abuse"(Hymowitz, 1). It made logical sense, that a boy with an abusive mother and whose involved in drugs would come out this way. What would someone expect of a child like that. Also when she stated " Recently evicted, she put her two sons... in the home of her own brother, subject of an outstanding warrant for felony theft". The author showed that the mother was an awful parent and she didn 't really care for where her children were staying. Finally when she put that the child was suspended from school for fighting at school and stabbed a child ,completed it and made perfect sense that the job of parenting was lacking. The author then displaces the boys life to and the people around him to make a strong point for the use of pathos. The author used Pathos very strongly in her paper. For example, when she said " Take a good look at this boy 's family. His family, Dedric Owens, who has six children by three different women, has been jailed for cocaine possession and burglary. At the time of the shooting, he was in jail yet again for parole violation"( Hymowitz, 1). The author made the reader feel bad for the child because of his father. You could say he was almost following in his father 's footsteps, sadly. Also when she said" In this case, it was Kayla Rolland- a child not even related