The Scarlet Letter

In the first ten chapters of Nathaniel Hawthorne's, The Scarlet Letter, he discusses the troubles of a woman named Hester being punished for committing adultery. Hester has a three year old daughter named Pearl who is also being teased by the community because of her mother's mistake. The town really puts down Hester for what she did, which can be understandable, however her daughter has nothing to do with what she did. This to me showed ignorance on the town's part by teasing the little girl and threatening to take her away from her mother. It doesn't make her bad mother for what she did. People make mistakes, she shouldn't be judged on her parenting skills for that once incident, unless she was endangering her child, which she wasn't.