Deborah Harrell's Essay: A Tale Of Two Summers For Parents

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Deborah Harrell is a hardworking mother who works at McDonald's but left her nine year old daughter alone at the park. She was taken to custody, some might think this is unlawful others might think it is lawful. In this article “A Tale of Two Summers For Parents” written by Belinda Luscombe argues that Deborah Harrell did nothing wrong. I have to disagree with Luscombe, Deborah Harrell left her daughter in the park for several hours and that is just unacceptable. I understand why Harrell had to do it but that doesn’t change the fact that she left her daughter alone and she was very lucky nothing horrible had happened to her daughter. Luscombe is a journalist, she has a good job that pays her good and can afford to take her children at a …show more content…

“... Shanesha Taylor, who left her two toddlers in a hot Arizona car for more than an hour, were dropped” said Luscombe. That is child abuse, it’s Arizona of course it’s gonna be hot as hell and she left her toddlers while she was having a job interviewed. How is that even acceptable, there has been many incidents where toddlers even babies have died for been in the car during a strong heat wave. It is legal know to break a window when you see a dog trap in the car on a hot day because that is animal abuse! So why Shanesha Taylor getting off easily, this probably was her first time getting caught but she has probably left her toddlers in the car multiple times. I stand against it, I know she was trying to get a job so she can feed he family but she doesn't know how lucky she is that her children survived in the hot car. Elementary-school-age children should definitely be required to have adult supervision. They are kids, they still haven’t matured we can’t give them full trust they have to earn it. I know time are tough but there is many ways you can leave your child at a safe place with a person you can trust. While Belinda Luscombe doesn’t know where her thiteen year old daughter is because she is okay with it, she will be at McDonalds ordering dinner so in other words she is been a lousy mother to be

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