It looks so good!!!

I’m so sorry for your loss 😭💔

Thank you for continuing to speak up 🙏

The deep seated irony of Jonah needing to rely on other adoptees, who likely have less resources, instead of APs, who we know have more resources, is so hard 😭💔

So vital! That one is a nationwide stat. Each state differs, I’m in CO where I have yet to meet a FC in care due to neglect from poverty. But this is the article www.fftllc.com/blog/alarmin...

You found her! What a gift! Especially after so many years you must have been so worried about if she was still with us on earth

I’m so grateful that not only do adoptees and former foster youth have such an avenue for connection and community on social media but also that we have platforms to elevate your voices over the societal narrative that we need adoption and it’s positive

I’m not sure how it compares to the US but here we have 76% of kids in care bc of neglect, but we don’t differentiate btn intentional neglect and neglect due to poverty

So thankful and I also know that nothing makes up for those lost years 💔🫂

This breaks my heart!

I’m so sorry 💔😭 my math is bad- is your little one grown now?

Even when a post adoption contact agreement is in place APs still have all the power. The number of loop holes that keep them from being legally enforceable is insane

Original birth certificates matter 👏

I was trying to tag you directly but couldn’t find your account for some reason. The DM is from a paternal grandma on the clock app who just found out her grand child was surrendered to a SHBB 2 years ago. She reached out to Monica for help.

Yes! 76% of kids are in care because of neglect yet we don’t distinguish between intentional neglect and neglect due to poverty.

Just here as a foster parent, and one of the littles with us has struggled so much with asking for help that it impacted their academics as they couldnt tell the teacher they didn’t know something. They’re 5 😭💔

These are the questions we need to be asking!

This was my thought exactly and I was hoping to find a better clarification in the article between the western idea of adoption vs merely providing safe external care while family is located, etc

Some fascinating conversations happening around #safehavenbabyboxes, specifically about the founders response to tough questions

He is a keeper!

I hate when I find something that’s cute but made by SHEIN, I know the quality will be abysmal

The lack of support for families taking in kids in crisis in their own family is awful. As a FP I have way more support and resources than most #kinship providers will ever have

Colorado told our #fostercare agency to prepare for hundreds of kids to enter care after being separated by #ice.

Foster care exists for kids with unsafe parents, not for kids with parents whose #immigration status we don’t like.

If I was your teacher I’d have fainted 😭

All I can think of is the scene in elf where he drowns it in syrup

So disheartened by the OBC bills tanking! #safehavenbabyboxes don’t solve an existing problem and only perpetuate the narrative that families in crisis should be separated, not preserved

Ugh, thanks for the update but wish this had gone differently!!

Birth parents are celebrated until they lose the child and then we villainize them 😭

Or wellness farms 😅