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=Foster Home Abuse is Similar to Huck's confinement in the Cabin=



In our society today children are still being treated unjustly by the law. There are now government funded agencies such as orphanages and foster homes. While some foster families to provide good lives for their adopted children, many abuse their rights and treat these children as property. Who grants these undiserving people the right to "care" for these children? Our judicial system. There are many events occuring in present day America highlighting this crisis of mistreatment towards foster children.

On July 18th 2006 a 17th month old baby, Latiana, was beaten and then drowned in a bathtub at her newly found foster family's home in Florida. In total their were 8 children in the house hold ranging from 10 years old to as young as 2 months. A few of the children were biological while the rest were foster kids. According to children who had been their the longest abuse was quite common in the household. One of the children had infact witnessed the death of baby Latiana. All of these foster children were placed in this home by respectable members of our judicial system, who believed it was a fit household. How could they be so sure? Did they even check on the children or keep in touch with the family? In Florida there are over 62 foster homes with 10 or more children in them. With the number of orphans and foster families growing each year it seems it would be hard to keep track of them all, but with this countries growing technology is should be possible.

Although The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written over 100 years it is easy to see how it still is a critique of modern day institutions. In the novel the law betrays Huck and commits him to a time of abuse and hatred. Many children are consumed by this same type of hatred and abuse in our so-called modern civilization. Foster homes are suppose to be a place of hope and love for orphans or abused children, instead sometimes they can be worse than the home or family they were with previously. Similarly to Huck Finn, although he wasn't very fond of his life with Widow Douglass it definetly beat that of the time spent with his drunken father. Twains critique of our justice systems ability to make proper decisions for children is still apparent today.

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