People or Punching Bags

Tonight is the 28^th of January. It’s 9:49 at night. Sitting here alone working on my homework got me started thinking about my boyfriend. Not entirely sure why. I am pretty sure it was because I had recently spent hours upon hours talking to him about both of our experiences in life as we begin planning for the future. So now you are probably asking where the argument comes in well I am getting to that. Well now is a better time then any to start it. While he was talking about his experiences in foster care inside my own mind I was thinking what gives someone the right to treat a person like he has been treated? I don’t see any right what so ever to have a loaded gun pointed in your face and fired at you. I am sure many people will think that that is taking things too far but what about the things done by the foster “parents”? He has told me that one of his foster homes used to use him as basically a slave and dished out what they called punishment on a regular basis. From what he has described this is not punishment at all. It saddens me to think that there are people who think that children deserve this. Times have changed since those people have grown up. I argue that punishment such as this cause the child mental harm as they grow up. Parents argue that it forces the child to respect their parents. I highly think not because I have personally seen the effects it has on people that have grown up in these situations. It hurts me to see the pain in his eyes when he talks about, I also am the one who sees the look in his eyes and how he questions all of what has happened.  This is even a hard topic for me to talk about with out getting to personal. If you are interested check out the paper I wrote on Foster care reform and then if you have the guts tell me it is right to have this happen to you.