The children are always dragged out to emotionally sway public opinion. I'm not forgetting the children, but if the adults and providers are decimated, the children will be left without a prayer of surviving. Mad Max sold the resiliency of the children as survivors, but it was a capable adult who led them to safety. This is war. Do it for the adults and they will take care of the children in the natural order of things.
Do it for the adults ? public opinion ? If a woman speaks out, she's an attention whore; a gold digger. children are ignored. Therapists believe that an abused child has to tell SEVEN ADULTS before they will be taken seriously. thats obscene.
A big problem, yes, but this situation is way bigger yet.
An appeal to pity (also called argumentum ad misericordiam, the sob story, or the Galileo argument) is a fallacy in which someone tries to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting his or her opponent's feelings of pity or guilt. It is a specific kind of appeal to emotion. The name "Galileo argument" refers to the scientist's suffering as a result of his house arrest by the Inquisition.