I need a thesis statement for this topic! What do we expect a biological family to provide for its children? How does your country, state, or community handle orphans or other displaced children? How is the condition of these children different from their condition in Victorian times? In what ways have we succeeded in making things better, and in what ways have we not? What should be done to make things better? How effective are adoption and foster care in fulfilling children's needs?

At first i was afraid to approach him—then the fear left me. he was sitting looking out over the city—he was dressed in the clothes of the gods. his age was neither young nor old—i could not tell his age. but there was wisdom in his face and great sadness. you could see that he would have not run away. he had sat at his window, watching his city die—then he himself had died. but it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit—and you could see from the face that his spirit had not been lost. i knew, that, if i touched him, he would fall into dust—and yet, there was something unconquered in the face. how does the conflict at the beginning of the paragraph move the plot forward? the narrator realizes that he is scared of the gods. the narrator realizes that he distrusts the spirits the narrator realizes that the god was a man. the narrator realizes that he is powerful like the gods.