Argumentative Essay On Missing Children

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Imagine that you are at the mall enjoying a nice day out with your family; then suddenly the worst happens. Your young child has gone missing and you have absolutely no idea where they could be or what to do. You go completely numb and begin to freak out. There have been many parents and families that have gone through this exact feeling of anguish and despair due to child kidnapping. Whenever a child goes missing it is a serious issue that should not be taken lightly and deserves immediate action. There is an estimate of 2,300 children that go missing everyday just in the United States (Linder, 2002). Can you believe how incredibly high this number is? Children who are so young and innocent go missing every single day. This is not fair and it is also not fair that so many of them go unnoticed. …show more content…

At around ten at night Madeleine’s mother went to check on the children when she realized that Madeleine was missing (Telegraph, 2008). It has been over nine years since Madeleine has gone missing and to this day there are still news reports online about her case. It is inspiring to see Madeleine’s parents continuing their search for her, but at the same time there are new cases of missing children that are not getting any media coverage whatsoever. This issue is due to multiple components, but I believe that a main reason for this lack of news coverage on missing children is due to the “missing white girl syndrome.” The “missing white girl syndrome” is a tendency by the news media to cover the murders and abductions of affluent or middle-class white girls far more than those of boys, poor children and children of color, especially African Americans (Maynard, 2014). This is something that can be easily seen and noticed on news stations, for example the Madeleine case. Madeleine’s disappearance caused news headline all around the world getting a lot of

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