{"id":1504,"date":"2021-06-21T12:23:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T12:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twowishesfoundation.org\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2021-06-22T01:25:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T01:25:06","slug":"black-kids-lives-matter-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twowishesfoundation.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/21\/black-kids-lives-matter-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Black kids’ lives matter too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

17 March 2021: \u201cIn the reckoning on racism triggered by George Floyd\u2019s killing<\/a>, decades of complaints from Black families hurt by the child welfare system are bubbling over into public protest,\u201d co-director of the New York University School of Law Family Defense Clinic, Chris Gottlieb<\/a> writes in Time<\/em> magazine<\/a>. \u201cOutraged calls for racial justice have come to a new battleground: child welfare.\u201d It\u2019s a story being played out across the world as indigenous families from the US to Australia, and families of colour, highlight how government authorities still, to this day, too readily remove children from parents who love them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSeparation of families of color at the border<\/a> by the Trump Administration was far from the first time that our government has used the taking of children as a terrifying act of persecution. Our current foster care system is an extension of a deeply ingrained history of separating children from their parents based on claims that it would further the children\u2019s \u201cbest interests.\u201d Such claims rationalized separating Black families<\/a> during slavery and Reconstruction and immigrant families at the end of the 19th century, when an estimated 200,000 children, primarily from immigrant Catholic families were put on so-called \u201corphan trains\u201d<\/a>, often by Protestant \u201cchild savers.\u201d<\/a> Many of these falsely labeled \u201corphans\u201d\u2014most of their parents were living\u2014ended up as indentured servants in the Midwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPrejudice also motivated the separation of an extraordinary number of Indigenous American families. Beginning in 1860, tens of thousands of children<\/a> were forced to leave their communities to be \u201ccivilized\u201d at residential facilities<\/a>. Later, between 25% and 35% of Indigenous American children were taken from their parents<\/a> and put up for foster care or adoption by white families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday, more than 200,000<\/a> children of color are in government custody in our foster system, and the current protesters are largely low-income Black and brown parents who explain that fear-mongering about child abuse has empowered child protective authorities to unfairly target their communities<\/a> and invade their homes with virtual impunity. A shocking 53%<\/a> of Black children\u2019s homes are investigated by child welfare officials. That knock at the door is not benign<\/a> social work. Caseworkers routinely demand<\/a> entry into homes in the middle of the night without warrants. The interrogations are frightening; the strip searches degrading<\/a>. Far too often, they end with the trauma<\/a> of children pulled from their parents\u2019 arms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

17 March 2021: \u201cIn the reckoning on racism triggered by George Floyd\u2019s killing, decades of complaints from Black families hurt by the child welfare system are bubbling over into public protest,\u201d …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twowishesfoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/foster-care-black-families-matter.jpg?fit=1600%2C890&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twowishesfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twowishesfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twowishesfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twowishesfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twowishesfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twowishesfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/twowishesfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twowishesfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twowishesfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twowishesfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twowishesfoundation.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}