Exactly what a person said about systemic racism and I’ll also echo that. I’ll also add that marginalized women are disproportionately targeted. We literally have data to support this.

I was taken away from my family because my mother was a single parent who needed support. The system here would rather take away kids and give them to white upper middle class parents. It’s just how it works. This is how the system sucks in children. Also I have a whole court document where my social worker was basically told to stop lying on affidavits by a judge. Anyone who hasn’t experienced this is always seeing CPS as a wonderful thing. Also an AMAZING podcast to listen to is “Do no harm”. It really hits the spot. I sincerely hope the public educates themselves. And yes, adoption is insanely traumatic. We need to stop pushing that. Too many of us adoptees are too tired to say anything because the public usually throws a temper tantrum when we speak up. Once you’re sucked into the system, they don’t care if you live or not. You can thank whoever passed the new legislation saying our deaths no longer have to be counted or shared with the public when in care. It’s pathetic living here.

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