Persuasive

 

Michelle Harper

COM 231: Public Speaking

4/12/20

Persuasive Speech: Young Christian Women Willing to Consider Benefits of Being Stay at Home Mothers

Outline and Projected Audience

 

The audience is composed of young Christian women who may or may not already be married. The group is ideally actively following Christ and believes in the authority of the Bible. At least 50% of the young women are likely not convinced of being available to their husbands and children fulltime. The likelihood is that they have never been presented with the information quite this way. I am vying for the adoption method, that the young women will consider the evidence of the benefits of their fulltime presence at home. The setting is my own kitchen, and the familiar things seemed relevant to my persuasion of women’s being the centers of their homes.

 

I.                   Introduction

 

A.                 Icebreaker

1.                  Hi, my name is Michelle Harper.       

2.                  My age is 48.

3.                  I’ve been married 30 years.

4.                  I’ve been a mother for 29 years.

5.                  I’ve been saved 27 years and home since 1991 when I was a student at Georgia State University where I had an experience at the daycare and decided to stay home.

 

B.                 Now that I’m older, I’m charged by Titus 2:1 and 3 to speak sound doctrine as an aged woman teaching young women to, “be sober, love their husbands, love their children, be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.”

 

II.                Clear Statement of Intent and list of elements: I want each of one of you to carefully consider not only obeying God’s Word but also the benefits for

 

A.                 Ourselves

B.                 Our husbands

C.                 Our children

D.                 The world around us

 

III.              Acknowledgment of opposing side: “I understand that society doesn’t encourage women to be ‘keepers at home’ anymore even though our families are falling apart left and right.”

 

IV.             Benefits for ourselves

 

A.                 Egalitarianism does not reduce the work burden rather doubles it according to Arlie Hochschild’s, The Second Shift.

 

B.                 We fail to realize the freedoms we have being homemakers.

1.                  The freedom to rest when needed

2.                  The freedom to be creative

3.                  The freedom to explore

4.                  The freedom of having only one male authority

 

C.                 “The home is the woman’s domain – her kingdom, where she exercises entire control,” The Ideal Life.

 

D.                 We self-impose a conflict of interest and time.

 

E.                  The truth is the job we do is of more value and adds more richness than anyone could ever pay us.

 

V.                Benefits for our marriages

 

A.                 According to the U.S. Census Bureau, of 9.5 million single mothers, only 8% were stay at home divorced moms. (Jacksonwhite.com reports that those fare well in settlements because of the prior arrangements.)

 

B.                 So, what do Christian men want in wives? Pew Research Center reports that of the men of the Millennial Generation, raised largely by single women often with feminist views, 93% picked “a good mother” as the #1 desirable attribute of a wife.

 

VI.             Benefits for our children

 

A.                 At the very least, we need to eliminate the risk of abuse and not leave our children with strangers.

 

B.                 We need to give them our first and best hours, not our last and exhausted ones.

 

C.                 We need not to expect our elders, who have done their work already, to raise our children for us.

 

D.                 A child is a gift. Why give anything but our greatest efforts?

 

E.                  The response to my recent, similar blog post was largely one of support from working women of my mother’s generation, maybe rethinking things.

 

F.                  Psychology Today says about “The Working Mother Study Report” authored by Harvard Business School researchers revealed instead of the advertised highlights that, “…early daycare is associated with better outcomes only for kids growing up in single-parent, low-income families.”

 

VII.           Benefits for the world around us

 

A.                 The History of Technology class at WCC reveals that home and children are so deemphasized that there is and international crisis of population shifts of age and that Russia is incentivizing births of children to correct the problem.

 

B.                 The ever-present issue of the environment can be helped by

1.                  Lessening daily commutes

2.                  Cooking, gardening, and preserving making fewer demands for prepackaging.

3.                  Living simply, needing fewer clothes, using cloth diapers, and nursing babies.

4.                  Decorating our spaces and for occasions with things from our surrounding rather than giving factories more to make.

 

VIII.        Closing

 

A.                 There can be a need or desire of supplemental income as there can be for a husband’s contribution of housework in times of duress.

 

B.                 I know personally women who have law and engineering degrees who have decided to give their families their all, rather than what’s left.

 

C.                 All is not lost: Gertrude Anscombe had 7 children and is considered “THE undoubted giant among women philosophers” in a detailed biography on actingpersonblog.wordpress.com.

 

D.                 I challenge you to BE WILLING to be available to your family.  – revisiting the original intent for adoption

 

E.                  You will have many questions. I have book suggestions including the one I am writing about my own experiences and lessons. – goal accomplishment

 

F.                  Thank you. And one day your family will, too, because Proverb 31:28 says, “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also and he praiseth her.”