Persuasive Speech Outline On Child Abuse

Why is it that you need a license to drive a car, practice law, or even fish, but anyone with a healthy reproductive system can bring a child into this world? Parenting is a serious undertaking and anyone who has done raised a child can tell you that it's not an easy task. Parents should be required to pass a minimum competency test and obtain a license before bringing a child into this world. On average there are 3 to 4 million babies born each year in the US. In 2014 264,746 children entered into foster care and only 50,644 children were successfully adopted into a new family. “Every year more than 3.6 million referrals are made to child protection agencies involving more than 6.6 million children”(Childhelp). There are more children being abused and given up then there are being born in the United States. Given this staggering , why are we continuing to allow children to be born to parents who do not know how to treat them or just outright do not want them? After reading my paper, I hope that people will realize that actions need to be taken to protect our children. Clearly the measures we have in place
I will show my audience the unfair bias that allows for adopted parents and people going through assisted reproduction to have requirements place on them, but not people giving birth naturally. While I do plan to outline what my solution will look like, I know that I do not have all the answers right now, because this topic has never been seriously considered by the right people. Hopefully, my paper can become a stepping stone for our society to start trying to figure out how we can make this work for the benefit of our society without infringing on our civil