@childwelfarelaw.bsky.social
Fundamental rights, at risk
19.11.2025 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
why, as adults, can’t we annul our adoptions?
why are we not free to reclaim our original identities, but instead must forever remain tethered to a legal contrivance made with no possibility of our consent?
"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements
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Shutdown layoffs target services for vulnerable students, homeless, seniors. …A nail in the coffin of the great society… they figured out how to do what not even Regan could.
15.10.2025 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
TOTALLY. AGREE 💯
06.10.2025 23:41 — 👍 1163 🔁 357 💬 43 📌 15
When even Rand Paul thinks you’re despicable.
07.09.2025 01:12 — 👍 27469 🔁 6493 💬 1272 📌 460
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
25.08.2025 23:33 — 👍 24936 🔁 6764 💬 869 📌 355Wow! Yesssss!!!! 🥚🎥
21.08.2025 17:25 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.
07.08.2025 12:07 — 👍 9211 🔁 5349 💬 544 📌 550
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“At 96, my father is one of the last living Holocaust survivors. He also has Alzheimer’s. The disease has not brought him the forgetting that would be a gift to him,” Orli Peter writes in a guest essay.
"After peaking in 2004, the annual number of international adoptions to the United States has fallen by 94% as of 2023, according to the most recent available U.S. State Department data." 🌟
26.07.2025 22:53 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0🥚 From the book I published in 2004 after going back to school to research why adoptee birth records were sealed. It wasn't a supernatural decree—legislators passed a law & legislators could reverse it. They haven't yet in California.
www.xlibris.com/en/bookstore... or www.amazon.com/Growing-Dark...
"...spokesperson for the California Dept. of Social Services Scott Murray explained the change.
“'Children generally do best when placed with and/or around their natural support systems and family, particularly kin, which can be a challenge if an adopted child is placed out of state'"
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A little good news:
"Beginning this month, the Adoption Assistance Program (AAP) — a state and federally funded benefit for parents who adopt from foster care — will no longer pay for most out-of-state residential care. The children will soon be headed back to California." +
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
21.07.2025 17:20 — 👍 68918 🔁 21069 💬 1598 📌 752this is so difficult, because some of my all-time favorite books were published over the last three years. but the book i wish everyone would read, because of the perspective shift it can and does bring about, is this one: @gretchensisson.bsky.social ‘s RELINQUISHED.
26.03.2025 16:16 — 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0And no matter what their immigration status is.
Health care is a human right.
The thing about the Epstein disgustingness that strikes me hardest is that hundreds of rich old men raped underage girls and the only person currently in jail for that vile behavior is a woman.
16.07.2025 19:17 — 👍 43764 🔁 11714 💬 1714 📌 803Early childhood education is not a “public benefit”. It is a right.
Access to food and healthcare are also fundamental needs for all children.
As pediatricians, we are appalled at policies that restrict these basic needs for children in immigrant families. The chilling effect will be devastating.
Am I dreaming? PBS NewsHour had a report on the adoption industry and how it exploits vulnerable women.
Though it stops short of calling for abolition, it does a good job of bringing into view stories like those in the book "Relinquished."
The link does not seem to be available for July 10.
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The Catholic Church is authorizing parishioners to indefinitely skip Mass out of fear of ICE raids😕
09.07.2025 16:14 — 👍 7540 🔁 2670 💬 333 📌 235BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
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