Rhetorical Summary

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Jonathan Swift begins by explaining how it is miserable to see such an abundance of children and how their parents are unable to provide for themselves for because they are forced to spend all their time caring for their children instead of working and making a wage. “These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants”. Swift offers a solution to Ireland’s poverty issue. He proposes that all the children born from the poor “will contribute to the feeding, and partly to the clothing, of many thousands”. When I first read this I did not fully understand what he was implying. Swift continued to described what he meant in such a …show more content…
I am neither in favor for or not in favor of this idea. First of all, what organization would carry out this rule and what ethical guidelines would they follow. For instance, a teenage couple has an unplanned pregnancy, they both want the baby, however the fail to successful obtain a license to have their child. What would happen to the baby? What would happen to the couple? Just the thought of having to obtaining a license to have a child brings up several moral dilemmas. Although I don’t believe that parents should be required to get a license to have a child, couples should be highly encouraging to attend parenting classes or some sort. It truly takes certain skills and qualifications for someone to be a parent just as it takes certain skills and qualifications to drive a car, to own a gun, (to even fish)! I myself am not a parent, I am well aware it is a huge responsibility; it takes tremendous sacrifice. At the same time people may attend class after class but may fully understand the skill until the actually experience it firsthand. Parenting is something you cannot learn from a book, or an instructor. To put it briefly, I do not know what it is like to have it child, I have seen many situations where the child suffers because the parents are incapable to provide for their child and therefore in such cases I think
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