...In the States it is big business to take kids and give them to anyone with designer curtains and a nice car in the driveway. In fact for each child taken and adopted there is a $10,000 award for doing it. The adoption business is very well financed by lucrative government and grants awarded "nonprofits." I have my own family damage they made with me and the child. They took the child from, the grandparents and lied about them, accusing them of abuse. There was no real investigation, no speaking to the people who were involved with the family, no real looking into the things that they should have been investigating and ignoring the facts ~ especially when it came to their anticipated $10,000 + bonuses. None, and the child was in a therapeutic childcare for the first 4 years who never saw a damn thing and recommended the child be adopted by them.. This childcare center was quite aware of kids who were abused, they kept watch and they found none. These people then adopted this kid to a couple who had just lost their own 2 year old child months earlier who drowned in their back yard pool! They had 4 little kids running around in the house with no supervision and they were still asleep in bed at 10am. What parent who is a decent parent raises up early, before the kids are up? Oh I know
Believe me until it happened so close to me I was shocked. I thought up to then that this part of child protection was a good thing. After all they were saving kids getting cigarette burn and beatings, right? But when I researched it thoroughly, I found some horrifying things. One sector of this population I was already working with; low income families and teens. Many of these teens on the street are lost to their own families, they are not heard when they try to report abuse and neglect even rape of a child. these kids are told lies about their parents and foster and adopted kids do not even know their parents, as well as their grandparents. See, these departments and non-profits do not get as much money if they actually see the fraud and abuse right in front of them. After alol they "vetted" these place ~ but to hell with the families who may want their children.
So it is not just Korea giving away kids. Whether taken as babies or older not having blood related family around them ~ and especially if they do not even share the race of these kids, We do it here too. In my state taken kids were subjected to physical abuse, denying of food and other needs. I heard all the time from kids that they try to talk to authorities about what they experience and unless "sex" was in the report well, they just go to hell ~ literally. I have even known parents whose kids that were taken and in foster care or adopted whose children are murdered and found buried in the homes' back yards. I am *not* making this up!
I've discovered so much more I have seen and believe me it is not pretty about our own country. I pity the immigration kids put in these foster homes, I worry about the "disappeared ones, who I suspect have been trafficked. But hey, these kids were placed in new homes with designer curtains by golly! I am not saying there aren't good homes out there, indeed I know of those too. the alarm is about who is vetting these people? Certainly not the CASA, who also gets massive government grants in exchange for their "work," many who have never had kids of their own. Not the CPS worker who already decides the birth family is bad, even the grandparents, while it is fine to place them with strangers they've "vetted"
Just sayin' ... Cat in Seattle
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