We always fear that our children will choose the wrong path in life. We try to encourage and support our children as best as we can, but with life comes responsibility and finances. We have to work to support our families and we cannot spend every second with our children.
This cartoon uses pathos, or emotional ques, to hit on our fears as parents. Parents fear that their children will become involved with the wrong crowd and will use drugs. It points out that gangs and drugs are always there for our children even when we are not. As much as we would like we cannot be there with our children every second. We are often faced with the fact that our children will have to make big decisions on their own. Parents can only hope that they have taught their children enough when that decision comes that they choose the right path. The artist plays on the fears and emotions that our children will choose the wrong path.
The cartoon also uses ethos, or our sense of trust in family and community, to emphasize the artist’s point. Parents are gone from 9 to 5 working their hectic schedules, in some cases even longer. Outreach programs and counselors that were once available to mentor our children have been eliminated because of the economic crisis. Gangs and drugs have no jobs, except to recruit and pull in our children. Many parents trust and rely on those programs to assist them in regulating the influences their children are exposed to. Since the programs have been closed down the children are left without those positive influences. We, as parents, then worry about the gangs and drugs becoming an influence in our children's lives.
Citation:
Fischer, E. (n.d.) Drugs and gangs. Retrieved April 23, 2010 from http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonview.asp?start=&search=news&catref=efin1390&NC_Category=&ANDkeyword=parenting&ORkeyword=&TITLEkeyword=&NEGATIVEkeyword=.
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