If you want to appeal to an audience, the best way is to make them have an attachment to what you are saying. By having them imagine their <em>own</em> families free, they will relate more to the speech and national leader.
C evokes the feeling of sadness, of pity that everyone will start to relate to the issue and think. <em>What will become of the nation for out children?</em> From here the speaker then can appeal to the audience by making them think of the future, and pity the people of the future, (specifically their children).