Contemporary Connections Foster Care and Eva Luna

Hilton Weeks

Contemporary Connections: Foster Care

A connection i made from the text to the contemporary world is Foster Care. The way how Eva  bounced from place to place, and house to house. She never settled in one home. Whenever she settled down, she would move to a new place, and new work. In today’s society we have a term for that in which a child cannot live with their mother or father because they are ineligible to. In this case Eva’s mother and father passed away, and that term that describes Eva is a Foster Child, who is under Foster Care, which is living with somebody other than your biological parents due to serious reasons. Eva is forced to live with people other than her biological parents just like children under Foster Care have to do now a day. Eva ends up living with the Professor first, then the Madrina’s sister, etc etc. We can basically call these people her Foster parents since she lived with them because she was unable to live wither her parents. After a while we can throw the foster care title out the window as seeing she reaches an age where she can care for herself and take care of herself on her own. Through all my searching in Foster care articles i found one quote that describes Eva.

   

    “Foster children just like any children have enormous potential to thrive given love, patience, and a stable environment.” - http://www.families4children.com/adopt_myths.cfm

Eva despite her moving from place to place has had stable environments to live in, and she has definitely grown into someone who has thrived throughout her lifetime. She acts like a normal person, she loves, she gets mad, all just like a normal person, even without her biological parents around.