Essays about Parenting

A young girl named Jessie Gill discovered she was pregnant at fifteen. While having sex with her boyfriend, condom broke. Unaware of the proper use of contraception and safe sex, the young fifteen year old girl went on with her life; school, church, and enjoying time with her friends. Until her she failed a pregnancy…

According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, in 2016, there were 20.3 births for every 1,000 adolescent females ages 15-19 or 209,809 babies born to females in this age group. Births to teens ages 15-19 account for 5.3 percent of all births in 2016. Nearly nine in ten (89 percent) of…

In William Blake’s poems “The Chimney Sweeper (1789),” and “The Chimney Sweeper (1794),” Blake explores the immorality of forcing children to work as chimney sweeps and how it affects their lives. Through contrasting his two poems by using paradox, diction, and metaphor, he illuminates the atrocity of child labor that is taking place in eighteenth…

William Blake, known for his renowned work during the Romantic era, earned a spot as one of the best known poets in the English language. Having had many spiritual visions, William Blake was inspired to incorporate his visions into his work. Among his works lie Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience which exemplify different…

Coal mining came along in 1700; coal mining was an easy process in the early days as it was inexpensive and easy as coal was close to the surface. 2 types of coal mines existed before the industrial revolution had begun. The drift and bell mines, both were small and produced large quantity of solid…

On March 9, a twelve year old child, Lionel Tate, wrestled a six year old little girl and beat her to death. Lionel Tate was convinced as an adult and First-degree murder. Many people believe that convicting Lionel Tate as an adult is unfair because he still is a child and children will always be…

With their delicate and small hands, they start an arduous and never ending day, a daily ordeal that they have to go through, in order to survive in their homes. Child labor is an activity that undermines children’s physical development and interferes with their school schedule or forces them to leave school early because they…

It might not cross one’s mind that child soldiers are capable of integrating into the child- unfriendly zone that is warfare. Media reports of the use of child soldiers have provoked a new international moral panic, drawing the attention of the United Nations among other multinational political bodies (Honwana 2005: 31; Rosen 2007: 296). But…

That is my dad. Yes, he is smart and he can be loving even, but first and foremost he lives and breathes tennis. As the sun hits my face and sweat runs down my forehead, I just stand there watching him play. I want to be like him someday. I want to be just like…

What does a knight in shining armor rescuing a maiden and a group of boys who save a friend have in common? They are heroes and show heroic qualities, A hero is a person who helps someone in times of need and puts that person’s needs before their own Heroes are courageous, caring, selfless, humble,…