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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. casual thonker‏ @CasualThonker Feb 15
      Replying to @FakeMeows @arthur_affect and

      A cursory reading of the Wikipedia article includes this quote from the founder: "we campaign to neuter dogs and yet we allow women to have 10 or 12 kids that they can’t take care of". Sound like I was spot on.

      1 reply 0 retweets 21 likes
    2. J‏ @FakeMeows Feb 15
      Replying to @CasualThonker @arthur_affect and

      That sounds like the woman cares about the kids that are neglected. I don't see any invocation of genetics. She adopted like 6 kids from drug addicts. How many foster kids have you taken in?

      6 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 15
      Replying to @FakeMeows @CasualThonker and

      Given that we're talking about human parents, not animals, I would consider it far more praiseworthy to be able to brag about helping six parents keep their kids than adopting those six kids, and find focusing on the latter option to be an obvious sign of conflict of interest

      2 replies 4 retweets 28 likes
    4. Räv‏ @Eristae Feb 15
      Replying to @arthur_affect @FakeMeows and

      What's really appalling, and part of what makes the foster care system so intensely fraught, is that if we gave struggling parents even the resources we gave foster parents, huge numbers could keep their kids.

      1 reply 1 retweet 21 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 15
      Replying to @Eristae @FakeMeows and

      Public adoption through the foster system doesn't have the same overwhelming level of perverse incentive as private adoption (especially international adoption) But it's really hard not to see the system as still a transfer program of poor kids to rich families

      2 replies 1 retweet 19 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 15
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Eristae and

      The way adoption support payments is fundamentally perverse First you screen the adoptive parents to make sure they have adequate income and don't need the money Then you give them support payments anyway, to make extra sure the adoption goes through and is successful

      1 reply 4 retweets 15 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 15
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Eristae and

      In many, many cases you could prevent the problem from arising in the first place and greatly reduce the trauma and disruption to the kid's life by doing the exact opposite (finding any parent who DOES need money because they DON'T have adequate income and just giving it to them)

      1 reply 2 retweets 21 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 15
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Eristae and

      As it is, adoption support payments are just this incredibly obvious example of "rich getting richer" policies in our society "Do you need money? No? Good, have some money"

      1 reply 1 retweet 14 likes
    9.  🌲 🍀 🌹 SpielMill Jayne - BLM!‏ @isotriajayne Feb 15
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Eristae and

      While I understand your point, please be careful. There is an issue in child welfare where states will subsidize children in care of strangers - but not children in care of kin. But we know that children do better with kin (including fictive kin).

      1 reply 2 retweets 9 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 15
      Replying to @isotriajayne @Eristae and

      The perverse bias here that "existing families" need to be held responsible for their ability to provide but *new* families are given access to all kinds of benefits they aren't (because now the state is held responsible for creating that family)

      2 replies 2 retweets 12 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect Feb 15
      Replying to @arthur_affect @isotriajayne and

      You can trace through all the moral justifications for doing it this way all you like But if you step back and look at it from a distance it looks a lot like "Wealthy white infertile couples deserve your kids more than you do" POSIWID

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        1.  🌲 🍀 🌹 SpielMill Jayne - BLM!‏ @isotriajayne Feb 15
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Eristae and

          That is exactly what it is. And it is why non-white children so often ended up in Congregate Care or in white homes - completely separated from their cultural/familial roots. It's still a problem today but was even a bigger problem historically. We refer to this as Diversion.

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