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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 May 2020

      There's an elephant in the room where people try to emphasize that ideally there is no difference between an adoptive parent relationship and a biological one and celebrate adoptive families that uphold the ideal But a lot of adoptive parents clearly don't see it that way

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 May 2020

      There've been multiple exposés of this whole underground network of people just giving kids away to strangers on Craigslist, bypassing the legal process for surrendering parental rights - almost universally someone who adopted a child and then regretted it It's so so fucked

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 May 2020

      It SHOULD NOT be the case that adoptive relationships are any different than biological ones but IN REALITY they are In theory we do all this vetting and training to try to eliminate potential adopters who will throw out a kid like trash but it still happens so damn often

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 May 2020

      It's like stepparents I remember reading all the articles profiling great stepparent relationships and loving blended families and saying "We wish people would retire the stereotype about the evil stepmother from fairy tales"

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 May 2020

      Then I got to college and actually had a prof who had written a book exhaustively doing research on stepparents that said "No sorry the fairytales are accurate"

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 May 2020

          "Congratulations to your family if your family is an exception but our ancestors wrote about evil stepparents all the time because that's a basic common pattern that happens and our society hasn't changed that much" Abuse and neglect of children by stepparents is fucking rampant

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 May 2020

          (It's arguably misogynistic that the stories focus so much on evil stepmoms when it's stepdads who are responsible for the most horrific and yet sadly common stories of abuse But the stats about how often stepparents are involved in CPS reports are really really stark and grim)

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        4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 May 2020

          I'm not saying this as some great defense of the ties of blood, as someone who has plenty of literal scars from blood family

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        5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 May 2020

          I almost want to say it in the much more cynical sense - bio parents with 100% of all the weight and pressure of our culture saying you MUST love your kids because they are your FLESH AND BLOOD and a PART OF YOU nonetheless still abandon their kids alarmingly often

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        6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 28 May 2020

          And it's like if you relax that enormous pressure by even just a little bit, you give them that one psychological out - "He isn't even really your kid" - people's eagerness to dip out when things get hard becomes overwhelming It's depressing as hell

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        2. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne 28 May 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          I mean, the thing is, plenty of those stories are about (non-step) parents, too. I think the incentives for adoptive and stepparents are deeply fucked up in our society and that contributes to stepparent and adoptive parent abuse, though.

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        3. Hoydenne‏ @iridienne 28 May 2020
          Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect

          (The Queen in the original Snow White story is the mother, not the stepmother. The villain in Donkeyskin/Catskin is the father. Etc.)

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