Justice and Righteousness

Both Twyla and Roberta were misjudged. The narrator states that “no else wanted to play with us because we weren’t real orphans with beautiful dead parents in the sky.” The other orphans misjudged them because they parents were dead, but Twyla and Roberta parents were still alive and had a chance to repair their relationship as mother and daughter. Both Twyla and Roberta went throw a phrase of hoping that here parents make them proud but getting them self’s clean and health, but it turned out to be the opposite. The narrator states that”” By the way. Your mother. Did she ever stop dancing?” I shook my head. “No. Never” Roberta nodded “And yours? Did she ever get well?” She smiled a tiny sad smile. “No. She never did.”” As children whose parents are alive but can’t and won’t take care of them, Twyla and Roberta are outsiders even within the shelter. Twyla and Roberta were both two scared and lonely eight-year-old kids. As two young kids growing up they had to rely on each other so that they could survive the hard nights and

Unfortunately, to reach the answer we seek, we need to answer other questions. For example, how are orphans affected by being orphaned? Next we must ask how does one achieve success, and what is it? And lastly, does this mental “programming” from being orphaned carry over into the orphan’s adult life? Our quest for truth cannot be achieved in one leap, but rather is accomplished by one small step after another.

The main idea of this book is to show everyone what child abuse and what living in different foster homes is like because most of the time people don’t usually talk about this topic due to sensitivity and this book helped everyone realize in a subtle way. I learned that this story isn’t just imagined, but it does indeed happen in real life. Children do live in households where the mother or father or whoever treats them unfair and that is what opened up my eyes.

Raising children is one of the most important responsibilities in any society. Today, working parents have many options, but what about those children who have neither a mother nor father? What about those children who come from broken and abusive homes? In such cases there are often few choices. Parentless children may be placed in orphanages or in foster homes. Ideally, foster care offers children more personalized attention than would normally be available at a public or private situation. However, orphanage care is notoriously uneven. While some children are indeed in loving homes, others find themselves neglected or

The Republic by Plato examines many aspects of the human condition. In this piece of writing Plato reveals the sentiments of Socrates as they define how humans function and interact with one another. He even more closely Socrates looks at morality and the values individuals hold most important. One value looked at by Socrates and his colleagues is the principle of justice. Multiple definitions of justice are given and Socrates analyzes the merit of each. As the group defines justice they show how self-interest shapes the progression of their arguments and contributes to the definition of justice.

The guardians understood that the children were born just to die at a young age. They understood that many people looked at them as monsters and not as human beings. With that in mind, the guardians did not get emotionally attached to the children. In The Effects of Early Social-Emotional and Relationship Experience on the Development of Young Orphanage Children, the main focus is on how children in orphanages react to certain types of caregivers. The caregivers who worked with the children at the orphanage seem to have the same concerns as the guardians working at Hailsham. On page 108 it says, “ Staff initially wondered if it was a good idea for children to have close relationships with caregivers when many would go to harsher and less affectionate and responsive environments in the future”.

Many of the most important aspects of and decisions about social organization hinge on an individual or society’s conception of justice. Because this conception of justice has tremendous influence over the way societies are structured, political theorists interested in understanding and improving society place great importance on understanding and articulating the nature of justice. While most of the political theorists we have read in class have proposed definitions of justice, none of them sufficiently incorporate the many dimensions of justice while remaining specific enough to allow for relatively consistent distinctions between the just and unjust. To balance these competing demands, I propose that justice is the impartial ordering of

In modern society, it is difficult to imagine the amount of pain women go through when losing their child to adoption. However, when women's children are put into the adoption system, they have complete control of the situation. Shortly after World War II, the pregnancy rate in young women increased a dramatic amount. Different from mothers today, these young girls were not given the choice to keep their child nor did they have much say in the adoption process. In Ann Fesslers’ book The Girls Who Went Away, pathos, logos, and ethos were used to show the lack of control young pregnant women had in the 1960s.

When looking at adoption there is a large variety of studies that can be done with adoptive children and their development. How does the child attach to his or her adoptive parents? How does the child view themselves in regards to a family unit when siblings are involved? How do the parents view the child’s placement in the family after a certain period of time has passed? All of these variables can be observed in study after study. But for sake of this paper, we are going to take a look at what researchers found in Romanian orphanages and how these children connected and attached with their adoptive mothers and parents. We will also look at a study

Kai and Faye adopted 3 children, a boy a two girls. I seems like they were from Vietnam because she say they had small faces and large dark eyes full of fear. It was noticeable the tragedies of war, death and poverty in their eyes. Time passed and everything seem to be working out, the kid’s faces are full of joy as well as Kai’s eyes. Faye deeply inside knew that she was everything to Kai, “To hi, she was the only woman, beautiful, complete, whole (38).”

“The Orphan Trains were a series of social service programs the relocated poor and homeless city children” (McClure). More than 200,000 children traveled by train from the east coast to seek new homes and better lives in the almost every state in the United States. A good amount of train riders were not full orphans. Most had parents or a parent that could not afford to take care of them and gave them up to save them from poverty and to give them a better life. Most of the time the train rides lasted several days “Once they got on the train, most children never heard or saw from their birth families ever again” (McClure). The kids felt scared but knew it was for the better. Before the trains reached the cities they would put fliers all over the town they were going to, to advertise that the children were coming so the families knew. When the trains would arrive the children would stand outside in a line and the families would come look at them and inspect them from head to toe. The children would often sing songs or say poem to make them look better and more educated. The families would look at their teeth and feel their arms and legs treating them like animals, to make sure they are healthy. If a family wanted you then you would go with them. If nobody wanted you at that stop you would load back up on the train and head to the next stop. Some of the children adopted were

Family can mean anything to an individual. In this case we see that the little girls find a loving home in those who could not have a baby themselves and they love the girls dearly.

At first, the parents had an idealized view of how their life would be with the children because they had been in the process of adopting for a very long time. However, when they started their lives together they learned that is was

Instead these two poor girls are from a mother, who is a washerwoman, and they do not know who and where their father is but rumor is that the father is in jail. So ideally the mothers of the children of middle minds with adult matters, children start thinking like adults.

The birth parents are affected by the thought of loss of a child due to the adoption placement procedure during pregnancy because their unplanned arrival of a child and life plans will take an unexpected turn as new parents. A struggle takes place mostly when the decision is made by the