Essay - Which Way Home

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Essay - Which Way Home
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WHICH WAY HOME - ESSAY 2
Which Way Home
There are many illegal immigrants to America. It is understandable particularly when
adults cross the borders in the pursuit of better wages for the sake of their families. The film,
‘which way home’ illustrates the journey of young children to the United States from Mexico. It
is worrying when minors are getting to risk their lives crossing the border for one reason or
another. The situation points the existence of problems in the family setting and upbringing of
children. Could there be neglect of parental role and child care in the family?
It is with this view that the essay is going to examine the underlying reasons that compel
young children risking crossing the border-defying all the odds of border security, hunger and
bad weather among other dangers and in the end give a conclusion.
Parental negligence is the first problem depicted that arises in the society which forces
young children to contend bad weather, hunger, the danger of falling off the trains or being
killed. There are children who are left behind with no parental care back are home. Olga, Freddy,
and nine-year-old Hondurans are desperate for parental care and they are crossing the border to
find their parents in Minnesota. Parental love and care is a force that can never be resisted by any
child and it costs anything for a child to attain especially when there is evidence that parents are
still alive. It is the reason as to why these children are risking their lives.
Furthermore, the loneliness and poverty in the stricken areas do not allow kids to reside
comfortably in their native homes. The expectation of better life in the north excites them to
leave their home country with the hope of getting a better life elsewhere.
On the other hand, child trafficking still gets practiced in some parts of the society where
young children get smuggled to other nations for child labor. There is a likelihood of child