Evaluation of Rose Kemp's "No Kidding"

1412 Words6 Pages
Suzanne Stone 10/15/2012 In the grocery checkout line in front of you, kids are hitting, screaming, throwing things, and being disobedient to their parents. At the movie theater, kids are whining and crying for more candy and popcorn, or even texting right in front of you. This can wear your nerves thin, especially when they are not your children. On the other hand, there are news flashes of bad parenting, “Mom gives 8-year-old Botox,” “Michael Jackson Dangles His Baby over a Hotel Balcony.” We all know cases of kids’ bad behavior and bad parenting, there are scads of stories and images on the internet. Let’s face it! Children do not come with manuals. It is all on-the-job training. The same is true for kids trying to grow into adults. In a CBC Commentary, Rose Kemp speaks against what she terms as a backlash against children. Children are necessary for life itself is the thesis for the article “No Kidding?” by Rose Kemp. One could hardly argue that point since in the Middle Ages, Christians thought celibacy a virtue but if everyone practiced celibacy there would be no society at all. The nineteenth century Shaker sect disappeared for this reason. In this article, Kemp aims to discredit an organization called No Kidding. She claims that No Kidding chapters have increased in the U.S. from 2 to 47 in just five years. A true statement based on my internet research. I did not check established dates of each chapter. She also states that society would disappear without children, which seems so common sense that according to Roberts, in his essay How to Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words, would probably have considered padding. Kemp then states, "These people are making a fundamental mistake about society itself" which would be considered by philosophers a synthetic statement – not enough evidence to support her claim – she is not a credible source for

More about Evaluation of Rose Kemp's "No Kidding"

Open Document