Orphanage Research Paper

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Stephanie Mendoza
RST 21
April 22, 2014
Professor Polluck
The Church and the Orphanages
Home is a place where children are meant to feel good and comfortable. When a place like home is not available, many children are left with the only choice of living on the streets or an orphanage. Life can be very harsh to children especially if both of their parents died. When a child is left alone because of the death of his parents he becomes an obligation to his closest relatives. However, they are not obligated to take the child. Many family members might not want an obligation that big and refuse to take care of the child. During this decision, children start realizing that they are not wanted and start to feel neglected. This is when they are send to orphanages; however, they are not always put in orphanages because they have no family. There are times when a family can not maintain another person and decide to leave one of their children in an orphanage. Many people were told that God is the father of orphans and his bounty was to be shared with them. Even though this phrase says what had to be done, it was not done. Romans did not care for orphans nor widows. When Christianity started to affect Roman life, charity was something that grew. Orphans were put in children asylums and rules were established. Girls were to be taken care of until marriageable age. The boys were given tools and placed in a condition to earn their living.1 However, things were not always good for the helpless children.
There has been orphanages since the Middle ages, but the first orphanage in North American was opened by Roman Catholic nuns in 1729.2 After that the number of orphanages started increasing, but in 1916 a New York state government commission st...

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...ho help the unfortunate for the love of it and because the bible has guided them to help. God has done a great job and these kind of actions is what makes people believe again. Each picture of the children who are in the orphanage display happiness. This orphanage might not be operated by religious staff, but a good orphanage is what counts.
The past might have many tragic events and maybe the future will have worst, but the most tragic events are when people who the community trust harm the people we love. It might not be people we love, but people in general who should not be getting harmed especially children. If the church wants to integrate with an orphanage its wonderful, but no harmful actions should be done. God is there to protect the unfortunates and so should the people who serve to God.

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