I was thinking about the fostering system the people in this book have and the modern foster care system and was somewhat irked by what I saw.
They are similar in the respect that fostered kids aren't neccesarily orphans. Other than that the differences are great. I glanced at the back of the book and it said that fostering strengthened alliances and the kids could form stong bonds with their fosters, for example Hoskuld became really close to Njal and his family, even though they killed his father, and they in turn helped him get a good wife. Also, the fostering sems to be rather permanent, the kid staying in one particular home.
Today's foster systems aren't the political device they were then, the kids can be shifted around and not neccessarily bond in the way we see in the book. It makes me sad because today there is such a negative image upon foster care, and we see that fostering could also result in great things. I realized that many traditions that were commonplace and funcional are now bizarre to us, traditions such as polygamy and this particular form of the foster care system.
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Thanks for the blogs. I think you'll be able to look back upon them later and see the tremendous amount of thought. You've put into these texts.
Why not keep a blog of things you're interested. It might be cooler than you think.
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3 I'll give you the extra point for style, although sems is mispelled.
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