I started watching Tom Seguras new special. I stopped when he describes one of his kids behaving oddly in front of strangers and excusing the behavior, lying(?) & saying He’s a foster kid. We know they’re all awful, or something close to those words. #fosteryouth #perpetuatingstigma #cruelty #FFY
I mean ideally you would address your belief systems and really ask yourself why you hate poor brown people but we're starting small here
#ReproductiveJustice #Abortion #Choice #FFY #FosterCare
How many former foster youth who aged out of the system have been swept up by ICE and sent to countries they have no memory of?
#FFY #FosterCare #ChildWelfare #Immigration #Trump
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Influencers using the bodies of fostered and adopted children with disability ànd neurodiversity to enrich themselves should be banned from fostering and adopting. #adoption #adopteerights #fostercare #ffy #disability #disabilityrights
Shoshana Walter: The same thing that we’ve always done with child welfare, in this case means putting more families under investigation. No one has ever tallied just how many families have been affected by this policy. That is until I started working with a team at Reveal, including data reporter Melissa Lewis, to send out public records requests to every child welfare agency in the country. Almost every agency fought back, but after extensive negotiations, some states sent over usable data, eight in total, plus the District of Columbia. And in just those places, we found nearly 3,700 women reported for taking addiction treatment medications like Suboxone or methadone, another medication for opioid addiction. We also found women reported for taking other prescription drugs during pregnancy, including antidepressants, ADHD, and anxiety medications, some women, even for the fentanyl, they received in their epidurals. Often referrals prompt a little more than a quick evaluation of the family circumstances and maybe a connection to services like housing, but other times they lead to a wide-ranging investigation that puts a family’s entire life under a microscope, and sometimes child welfare agencies end up taking the baby. I found at least 40 babies put into foster care after their mothers were reported for taking addiction treatment meds during pregnancy.
We also found women reported for taking other prescription drugs during pregnancy, including antidepressants, ADHD, and anxiety medications
some women, even for the fentanyl they received in their epidurals.
#ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveJustice #ChildWelfare #FFY #FosterYouth
image: screenshot of headlines KFVS12 Family of 4 accused of caging up and sexually abusing adopted, foster children 3 days ago WCJB Children rescued after 4 family members accused of caging, abusing adopted and foster children in Columbia County 3 days ago Miami Herald Parents cage non-biological son, treat adoptive kids like ‘workers,’ FL cops say 6 hours ago KEYE Florida family accused of caging and beating 9 children 6 hours ago View full coverage Advocate.com Anti-LGBTQ+ mom in Oregon wins right to potentially adopt LGBTQ+ kids Jessica Bates said she would not let her kids dress how they want, nor take them to the doctor for gender dysphoria treatment. .3 days ago
hey could shit change for the better before I turn into a bitter old hag or nah
#FFY #FosterCare #Adoptee #Adoption #ChildWelfare
"We experienced some type of neglect or abuse that I never experienced being with my mother. If the goal for the system was to protect children, they failed.
They took several kids from a good home and put them through multiple traumatic situations."
#FFY
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Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer Offer a tax credit to Americans who foster dogs like people get tax credits for fostering children. https://x.com/conomarz/statu/conomarz/status/1942426099893281147 This post is unavailable. 8:31 PM · Jul 7, 2025 · 47.4K Views
totally cool and normal idea from Laura Loomer
#FFY #FosterYouth
why I keep speaking out - because this is still happening, because it never stopped happening
#FFY child welfare white supremacy
The state separated him from his mother, left him on his own, intervened only after finding out he was living in atrocious conditions, and then removed him from his foster home in shackles.
I cannot express the level of rage I am experiencing.
#FFY #ICE
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I don't know how many times I have to be vindicated before we change something
ugh
#adoption #adoptee #ffy
KTLA New details released in High Desert torture case involving 6 foster children 5 hours ago USA Today Married couple, daughter accused of ‘severe and prolonged’ torture of 6 foster children 5 hours ago Los Angeles Times Foster children were tortured for up to 10 years inside Victorville home, authorities say 3 hours ago ABC News Southern California couple charged with torture of 6 foster children 5 hours ago Orange County Register Victorville foster children kept journals of strangulation, other abuse, DA says 2 hours ago ABC7 Los Angeles Torture charges filed against 3 Victorville family members accused of abusing 6 foster children 4 hours ago AOL.com Couple and adult daughter charged with torture, abuse of 6 foster children
cool system you got there, would be a shame if something fucking changed ever
#adoption #fostercare #FFY
She said she felt the state workers were treating her as “guilty until proven innocent.” She knew she needed counseling and that with the right support she could recover. Instead, she said the process of trying to get her daughter back, and a sense no one was fighting for her, caused her to “fall hard into addiction” and become homeless. In 2021, her daughter was adopted and Garretson’s parental rights were involuntarily terminated. Garretson still hopes one day to reunite with her. “I didn’t have anyone on my side, and I just, I didn’t know what was going on,” she said. “I didn’t know the procedures. They’re like, ‘Well, you should have researched it.’ When you’re that far into a trauma mode, you’re grieving your child like they’re dead.” “I know 100% that it would have been a whole lot different if I had any ounce of support on my side,” she said.
“I didn’t have anyone on my side, and I just, I didn’t know what was going on”
#FosterCare #Adoption #adoptee #FFY
Fend For Yourself / repurposed leftovers dinner tonight, so I made myself a steak taco salad! Romaine lettuce, steak chunks, nacho cheese sauce, avocado lime sauce, and Cholula 🤤
#FFY #FoodPorn #NomNom #Noms
A little note on this case - these parents were detained on entry during Biden's admin and deported under Trump. Biden separated them from their child. They were never reunited after their initial detention.
I really need y'all to pick up what I am putting down bc I'm so tired.
#FFY
I released my book! ISO literary agent. www.fostered-asa.com #FFY #formerfosteryouth #memoir #writers #publishers
The limiting of independence by not having a drivers license is so impactful, and #ffy don’t need any more barriers to success as they age into adulthood
