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Gail Elsey
Custody Role-Play
- Warm-up: Think about all the television ads you
see with the starving children in them. What do you think happens to
these children? What do you think should happen? Do you think these
children have a chance at a normal life? What about the poor,
homeless, or abandoned children here in the United States? Does
society want them or are they pushed off to the side? Where should
these children go? Who should take care of them?
Today I am going to ask
you to assume the roles of an attorney who is defending the rights of a
gay couple to adopt children and the prosecuting attorney assigned to
defend the state’s decision to take away the child. Facts to consider:
the couple has raised this child for thirteen years; the mother is a
professed crack addict; the child was only supposed to live to three
years old, but the couple has done everything they could to the utmost
and the child has lived happily and as healthily as could be expected
for a crack-baby that is HIV positive; the state only provides $13 a day
for foster parents; and this couple foster parents other children who
are HIV positive.
- Select the participants: two participants will
be randomly selected. The rest of the class is to act as the jury in
deciding the case.
- Preparing the audience for observation: What
did the role players say that revealed their opinions? How did
they use facial and body gestures to reveal their positions? What
could have been said that wasn’t said? Were their arguments logical or
emotionally swayed? What would you say if you were in their
position? Who has the stronger emotional appeal? Whose argument is
more logical? If you were the original mother, what would you want?
If you were the child, how would you feel? If you were the parents,
what would you do?
- Enact: Each participant is to present his or
her argument to the “jury.”
- Discussion and evaluations: The class will vote
to which side “won.” The class will discuss which argument was
stronger and why. Other possible outcomes will be explored and
evaluated.
- The re-enactment: Three other students will be
chosen randomly to play the roles of the mother, the parent, and the
13-year-old child. They will present why they are/are not happy with
the outcome of the jury’s decision and why they feel that way.
- Sharing experience and generalizing: Each
student will share how they feel about the situation and whether or
not Florida had the Constitutional, moral, or civic right to take away
the child from his foster parents.
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