Well that was a fucked up but very interesting read, thanks.
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ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoMay I introduce the Victorian concept of Children in Workhouses.
That’s where you’re heading.
punkibas@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Wilco@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
This is EXACTLY what they want. They sell the cute ones (check the protective services website, they have them listed for placement like a weird dating service or pet adoption site). They will prison to pipeline the rest while working them in “skill camps”.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
CPS is a dystopian hell. I advocated for a child for a while, they would fuck up absolutely basic things, would not find out about things like hospitalization or legal trouble for weeks. When I brought up several months of basically no mental health care, they insinuated that I might be abusing the child.
They won’t take action on actual abuse. It’s Kafkaesque.
Wilco@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
To justify their budget, they must find “clients” to put in their system. Getting clients means finding just the right parent(s) that they can bully, intimidate, and exaggerate charges against. Child services no longer operates in good faith. They won’t even allow you to record their conversations because they are so apt to lie. The foster system is just as bad. Putting people on payroll to take care of kids that no one knows the location of. 23,160 foster kids were reported missing or unaccounted for in 2024. These were just the ones REPORTED. Where is the politician rage over this?
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The foster care system is complicit in child trafficking, and the politicians are in on it. I recall a news story where a politician was “helping” pregnant women with visas and trafficking them and the babies.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My states DHS has the wrong number for a large county’s police force. They have been leaving voicemails with children’s personal information, as well as preventing cases that are supposed to be reported to the police from actually being reported - because they’re in some random guys voicemail!
I noticed this more than a month ago, have made hundreds of phone calls and emails to state agencies and politicians. They don’t care.
I spent two years as a CASA. I loved that kid. That entire experience crushed me as a human being.