Scarlet Letter Debate - Please Help?

[nerd]

I have a debate on custody debate for the book Scarlet Letter: Who should have custody of Pearl? Hester or the city of Boston?
I am to find arguments for Pearl to be given to Boston.

Can anybody help me with some good arguments of why Pearl should be given to Boston instead of her own mother, Hester?

So far, I've thought up:
-Hester is a single mother, thus Pearl will be better raised if she was given to Boston; she'd have better chances of living normally
-Pearl has no father and it may affect the way she lives after she finds out what the scarlet letter A really stands for on her mother's breast

 

[ibsaved21]

well, i will give you the argument for her mother.
Her mother may be single, but she is her natural mother and what could be better than that?
The state (In this case, Boston) always cares for children by sticking them in a child care facility that lets no information about the child get out into the world so the mother may not have that chance to come back and get her.
The scarlet letter was forced on her because people though she was an adultress, but she only slept with 2 men, not more than that. Her first husband was (according to the movie I watched) ugly and believed to be dead. She appeared to not love the man and fell in love with the town religious man.
Once pearl realizes what the A on her mother's breast meant, she may ask her mother if she is still with her about it. In the movie, as a little girl when the mother and the priest left the town, she dropped the letter onto the ground and they never saw it again.
she may not have a biological father, but she does have a father figure in the priest. Hester should have custody of Pearl because a natural biological mother is best for the child. who else knows the child's distinct cries for different things?

Argument for Boston?
yes, Hester is a single mother also labelled an adultress, but that's what the town thinks. the town doesn't know her. they judge by what they witness and think happens. I got nothing for Boston. Boston may care for Pearl, but who better to care for her child than the mother?