Hillary pushed a law and she’s still bragging about it.
When she says “I worked with Tom DeLay, one of the most partisan of Republicans, to reform the adoption and foster care system,” this is the law she’s talking about.
The law is called the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). It’s not about adoption and it’s not about safe families. ASFA was about demonizing impoverished women, especially women of color, and taking away their children.
Here’s what ASFA did:
ASFA encouraged a take-the-child-and-run mentality on the frontlines of child welfare. Thousands more families, overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately families of color, were destroyed by wrongful removal of the children.
Instead of reducing the foster care population, ASFA increased it, trapping thousands more children in a system that, according to one major study, churns out walking wounded four times out of five.
ASFA effectively turned the child welfare system into the ultimate middle-class entitlement: Step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own.
And when the army of childless yuppies didn’t show up to adopt in anywhere near the numbers predicted, ASFA created a generation of “legal orphans” with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive homes either — probably at least 100,000 more such “legal orphans” than had ASFA not become law.
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srayzie ago
Hillary pushed a law and she’s still bragging about it. When she says “I worked with Tom DeLay, one of the most partisan of Republicans, to reform the adoption and foster care system,” this is the law she’s talking about.
The law is called the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). It’s not about adoption and it’s not about safe families. ASFA was about demonizing impoverished women, especially women of color, and taking away their children.
Here’s what ASFA did:
ASFA encouraged a take-the-child-and-run mentality on the frontlines of child welfare. Thousands more families, overwhelmingly poor and disproportionately families of color, were destroyed by wrongful removal of the children.
Instead of reducing the foster care population, ASFA increased it, trapping thousands more children in a system that, according to one major study, churns out walking wounded four times out of five.
ASFA effectively turned the child welfare system into the ultimate middle-class entitlement: Step right up and take a poor person’s child for your very own.
And when the army of childless yuppies didn’t show up to adopt in anywhere near the numbers predicted, ASFA created a generation of “legal orphans” with no ties to birth parents and no adoptive homes either — probably at least 100,000 more such “legal orphans” than had ASFA not become law.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/2/16/1485775/-What-Hillary-Clinton-s-terrible-foster-care-law-did-to-poor-children-of-color
remedy4reality ago
This post dovetails with the recent post on the NSMEC and how nearly 9 of 10 trafficking victims come through CPS and the foster care system.
It's codified and legislated child trafficking infrastructure.
Nana66 ago
And our Social Security was adopted also...we will lose all rights to that too.
srayzie ago
This world is turning into hell. We're seeing the Book of Revelation playing out right before our eyes. We are living in crazy times.