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Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social |
The US removes more children from their families than any country on earth--500,000 children are currently in foster care, and just 17% of them were removed from their birth families because of physical or sexual violence with the rest removed because of financial hardship
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BA ❄️
@bafairbend.bsky.social
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So broken. No child should be taken away from their family because of money.
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Jarda
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That's an unusual way of social care. I think even ruZZistan doesn't have this.
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@sarcoidsally.bsky.social
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It is insane
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤
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I learned that people critical of the child welfare system call it “family regulation system” which I find very apt and also chilling
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CharleyinMA
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PKPs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Twitter ‘X’ refugee thank you 'Elmo' 🙄
@powerfromspace1.bsky.social
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It's a business 🧑💼 the US that exploits the vulnerable 🤔
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Mushboom
@mushboom.bsky.social
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American culture considers poverty to be a moral failure and the result of personal sinfulness, does this surprise anyone?
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Dominique Ramsey 𓆣🍉
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"yall aren't having enough babies! fix that!" "uh oh, looks like you can't afford those babies we encouraged you to have...guess they belong to us now!"
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thomas eric brunner-williams
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also, which child welfare departments in which states and counties (as that is where governance takes place) are so over-resource and over-staffed that they have the time to process kiddos not starving, bleeding, or screaming? do they have fail-to-thrive detectors that work?? you boosted nonsense.
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thomas eric brunner-williams
@tbrunner.bsky.social
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you left off developmental disabilities, and given the vast differences between states policies, an "average" ("the us", supra) is useless, unless you're doing aclu-outreach to belgians. try putting policy out, not "facts" of dubious distinction. tomorrow i'm bringing my adult son home from a B2.
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Chillbo Hangins
@woskethoughts.bsky.social
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Wait. And they’re still FORCING women to have babies they don’t want?
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Gillian Branstetter
@gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022...
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G!
@gpike.bsky.social
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Meanwhile, wealthier white christian parents continue to abuse their kids with impunity, under the guise of religious freedom...
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Lisa Horn
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I think the larger proportion of removals is for "neglect", not financial hardship. Many cases can be attributed to a family's financial hardship, but certainly not all. One of the many challenges with child welfare is a lack of clear and consistent criteria. Neglect can be not related to $ at all
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enkyment
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Any idea how often children are removed for false assumptions of abuse after a benign injury? This happened to us and we fought for months to get them back. The attorney ad litem told us at the end that she would never again assume the state had done their due diligence, which wasn't too comforting.
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KidsData
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True. And especially heartbreaking because the problem is solvable.
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iquanyin
@iquanyin.bsky.social
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just give the poor families the same money as you'd give to foster parents.
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Sara Manns
@whatsarasaid.bsky.social
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It's weirder than that: The largest share of kids entering the system are taken into custody (w/parents put on a "plan" to get them back) after a report from a health care provider. Guess how much training about state laws on "mandatory reporting" they're required to have before getting licensed?
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Robert Lawrence
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Wow, I had no idea. That is shocking.
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Daniel Probst
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Aside from the ethics, isn't this also more costly than supporting struggling families?
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Megan Darby
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this made me curious to look up the UK stats and here two thirds of children taken into care are victims of neglect and abuse learning.nspcc.org.uk/research-res...
periodically there are news stories about tragic cases where kids weren't taken into care despite signs of abuse
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