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It's Your Choice By Jaycee Dugard

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It’s Your Choice Each year there are nearly 800,000 children who are reported missing, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.Everyone should have a choice Jaycee Dugard didn’t have a choice when she was taken for 18 years, but she survived that traumatic experience. To prevent kidnappings staying informed and spreading the word about kidnappings should be raised. Before Jaycee was taken by Nancy and Phillip Garrido she lived in Tahoe, California.Jaycee was a very shy person, she is also very self-conscious. Jaycee once said “I am embarrassed to be seen with all that hair” (Dugard 8). For a while it was just Jaycee and her mother living together, then her mom met Carl. Carl became Jaycee’s stepfather, and they don’t have the …show more content…

Nancy who was one of her captors had multiple opportunities to let Jaycee go, but didn’t want to upset her husband. Jaycee wrote “Deep inside Phillip Garrido is a very selfish man, looking only to gratify himself as much as possible while still projecting to the world a selfless and caring man.” (Dugard 57) She became very dependent on the man who took her, she depended on him to bring her food and water. When Phillip told her the reason he took her she thought it would be better her than anyone else.When she had her first child at age 14 she was scared and excited she knew she wouldn’t be alone anymore and was glad she had something of her own,but she didn’t want to bring anyone into a world like the one she was living in. In an interview with Diane Sawyer, Jaycee was asked if she would let her kids see their their father. Jaycee said “I want them to make their own choices in life, and if that’s something that they need to do, then you know I’d... I wouldn’t be okay with it.But I wouldn’t let them do it” (Her Daughters

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