Take a Stance on the Topic and Supports it with Specific Evidence
My view on the topic is that I believe that the parents who implanted their child with the cochlear implant made the right choice. Of course my bias is obvious in this situation. I am not deaf and I have never known anyone who is. Until I watched this movie, I had no idea that there was such a thing as "deaf culture" or that deaf people associated with it. Even though I understand that people of the deaf culture would be offended that someone would want to take a child out of their culture, a cochlear implant gives a child the opportunity to choose their lifestyle. Those are the key points: a.) choosing and b.) opportunity. Any parent would agree that they want to give their child every opportunity that they can have to succeed. In our society being deaf would be at your disadvantage. The father of Heather, Peter, said himself that because he was deaf, he didn't have much of a chance at progressing up the corporate ladder. Maybe deaf culture is beautiful and provides joy in the lives of the deaf, but being deaf puts a person at a disadvantage in society as a whole.Furthermore, giving a child a cochlear implant at a young age gives the child the opportunity to choose their own lifestyle. They will grow up learning how to speak, but the implant does not make your hearing permanently fixed. If the child chooses that he or she wants to be a part of the deaf culture, they could turn their implant off and never use it. Giving the implant is giving the child choices. Leaving the child without an implant doesn't give it any choices at all and leaves it at a disadvantage in our world and could expose it to much strife.
