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Mary Ellen Mccormack: Prevention Of Cruelty To Children
The past, I figured I should undertake. I traveled back into time looking for the first child negligence to be recorded. Although, I didn’t fully grasp the story when I first heard about it from a previous teacher. Upon looking up the full article I found a few information. Mary Ellen McCormack, was an American whose case led to the creation of the New York Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children. It’s a bit shocking to see a movement after one occurrence. Mary Ellen had a mother and father, but later lost her father. He Mother who had to take a job was unable to attend her daughter and keep her company. She put her daughter in daycare. Weeks after placing young McCormack in daycare, her Mother was not able to visit her daughter anymore …show more content…
She traveled to a nearby island, where she met my aunty. My aunty took her in and treated her like her own child and gave her all that she never thought she would ever receive. I asked her “what is one thing you would change if you could go back”, she simply said “I wouldn’t change a thing. I would never have met my mom now and learn the best lessons if it wasn’t for what I went through”. The cruelty and greed for money is unbelievable. A person can go to a certain extent to get what they want. It’s so disgraceful to hear these types of things. Later in life, I pray people learn from their mistakes. What had this world got itself into? I honestly loved interviewing my own cousin. It’s sad to hear, I really did cry half of the time. But when I asked her the question about changing something in life, I was amazed by her response. If it were me I would say I’d bring my mom back and tell her everything that her relatives had done. Telvina learned the better things in life. She didn’t let her past come in the way of her future. She continued to live her life and become more successful. She also ended with something I hear a lot “I forgive, but I don’t ever

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