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In the article Father angry over child’s death by the Denver Post what matters are child abuse and divorce, and how it affects people. In the article two year old Elijah Archuleta died of severe burns, which were believed to be from his mother and her boyfriend. Elijah’s dad James was extremely upset over his son’s death. The mother and her boyfriend are being tried for first-degree murder. James talks about how his son never wanted to go with his mother, and he was going to fight for sole custody of Elijah and his older sister Serenity. It is terrible that this dad had to go through this, having his child killed by his ex-wife. Child abuse is a horrible thing; there are many cases of it every day. I never understood what could possibly go on in someone’s mind to make them think that it is okay to treat their kids that way. It makes it even worse that the parents were in a custody battle. Now it obvious who the kids needed to be with, the unfortunate part is that for one of them it is too late. My parents were in a custody battle for a long time, luckily neither of them was physically abusive. However the whole process of how much time you get to spend with this one or that one it is all very abusive on your emotions. These kids were very young so they really wouldn’t have known what was happening. I was thirteen an age where I wanted to and felt like I should have been able to choose things for myself. Divorce is a horrible thing to have to go through, and unfortunately often there is child abuse involved. Kids should never have to go through things like that. Often it forces them to grow up instantly and they never get the childhood that every kid should get a chance to live. And because they go through all this they eventually have to find a way to deal with all the pain and that often leads them down a horrible path. The father had the right to be angry over his son’s death, I hope he takes that anger and hurt and uses it to begin an organization to keep this from happening to more children.