I am still reading Three little words by Ashley Rhodes and what just happened is Ashley switched to another home but this time the woman is evil. The Mosses are foster parents that pretended that they are nice and caring, but really once the workers leave they are mean and abuse their kids. The only reason that they have foster kids is because they get paid to take care of them. They physically abuse the kids that they have and they live in very poor conditions with no air conditioning and small rooms that many of them stay in at the same time. Any time a kids does something wrong they are abused by being spanked or having to run or having to do things and if they can't complete the tasks then they beat them. Also if they say something wrong then the mother pours hot sauce into their mouths. The kids all have to share clothes and they all only get 6 inches of water to bathe everyone in (at the time the Mosses had 14 children staying with them). This was a horrible experience for Ashley and her brother and they are scared for life from this. The case workers never believed Ashley and so the Mosses got away with it. Mean while Ashley has gone to two different houses after that and her and her brother are now separated again. Ashley just got to start visiting her mother again and she believed that she could live with her again, but then they found drugs in her mothers system and Ashley is never allowed to live with her again. Ashley starts to believe that it is her brothers fault that she can' t see her mother anymore because her mother told her that Ashley belongs to her and Luke belongs to his father. This is what got Ashley and Luke separated again.

At first in the story Ashley was a sweat innocent child that was put in to a rough life that no one should go through. But now over time Ashley has started ti become meaner and meaner. She has started to realize what is actually happening to her and it is changing the way that she acts now. She is mean to her brother that she loves so much, she hits him and pulls his hair because she thinks that he is keeping her from her mother. Also she is now starting to boss her foster parents around and give them sass. She doesn't listen to when people are talking to her and she thinks that she knows best. Not having a stable home is now affecting the way that Ashley is acting and is treating others. She has never gotten attention from anyone that cares for her and she is always striving to be noticed.

This book really connects to the whole world. So many kids are being out in foster care all over the world and we don't even notice it. These children have to live with the fact that they have never had a home just to themselves and their blood family, many of them have gone through rough lives like Ashley and most of the world isn't paying any attention to it. There are about 400,000 children in foster care in just America and this problem is world wide. The average ages of kids in foster care is 9-10 years old and the older ones are 11-15 years old. It is hard to imagine that so many kids in the world are in Foster care and we haven't even though about it.
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