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Dolores´ options

Posted by kratt on Friday, November 21 2014 at 00:19:20AM
In reply to Discuss: Lolita and child liberation posted by EthanEdwards on Thursday, November 20 2014 at 04:57:34AM

Charlotte Haze planned to pack Dolores off to a boarding school. Everyone agreed she had the legal right to do so. Yet Dolores feared it.
Charlotte had packed Dolores off to a lonely farm for a summer, which Dolores recalled with horror.

Humbert told Dolores that if she reported him to police, she would go to foster care, which would be about as bad for her as boarding school, and that Dolores therefore was better off putting up with Humbert and sex. Dolores agreed - although Humbert calls Dolores naive for so doing. Dolores never did report Humbert, nor go to foster care. Nor grow up: she died in childbirth shortly before her 18th birthday.

However, after some time of putting up with Humbert, Dolores decided that although reporting Humbert and going to foster care was worse than enduring him, running away and living on her own (age 13 or so) was better than enduring Humbert. She therefore started saving money Humbert was bribing her with for running away, and Humbert started seeking her savings and taking them away.

Eventually, Dolores preferred to escape with Quilty and actively preferred Quilty to Humbert.

Quilty did not imprison Dolores in her home or some lonely farm as Humbert had menaced - when Dolores would not meet his sexual demands, Quilty threw her out, so she had her freedom to choose to live independently (and did gain employment as scullery maid) or report Humbert and Quilty to police (and go to foster care). She chose independence.

After a while, she encountered Richard Schiller. She never loved him - she was sure she only ever loved Quilty - but she was the best of the bad options she had (return to Quilty on his terms; return to Humbert on his terms; foster care; continuing with independence and scullery employment).

Humbert may have called Dolores naive for believing foster care sucked, but it does appear to be true, still. Children are abused both in homes and foster care, but abuse in foster care appears to be more frequent. Children run away from both homes and foster care, but runaways from foster care seem to be more frequent. It is also by no means unknown for children to run away from foster care to return to their allegedly abusive parents, and be forcibly returned.

If children have enforced dependency of parents because the alternative, foster care, sucks and the children do not even have the freedom to make the choice between foster care and parents then yes, they are not liberated.

So how can children be liberated?
1) Provide decent quality foster care
2) Permit children to volunteer for the good foster care provided in step 1), and to return home if they find by experience in foster care that home is better after all
3) Dolores Haze would encounter in her class several children who are in foster care, by their own choice, and are not outcasts/bullying victims for it, so she can talk to them and hear what foster care is like. She would also meet and talk to several children who have been to summer camps OR foster care for a while, and returned home, not because foster care was bad but because home was better. She would therefore be well informed that she has a tolerable alternative to Humbert Humbert - and Humbert Humbert would have to keep Dolores on her terms (presumably including not having sex with her when she is not interested, and permitting her to meet and have sex with boys her age, or even Quilty, when she is interested), or lose her.




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