Yeah when people talk about kids lying to social workers to try to avoid getting taken away from their parents they talk about it as though this were an irrational act, Stockholm syndrome And devotion to parents may be part of it But it also *actually is a rational choice*https://twitter.com/UpFromTheCracks/status/1385358461387554820 …
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Even if you live in an abusive home, getting taken away into the unknown is a *fundamentally* shitty thing to have happen to you that causes you damage Losing your old environment and starting over fucking sucks at any age but especially for a kid
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And that's leaving aside that the foster system *doesn't* function as advertised most of the time and the situations kids get put into *really fucking suck*
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As much as there are decent people in the system trying to keep it from happening -- foster kids get beaten up, foster kids get sexually assaulted, foster kids get killed It happens all the time
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There are no good, easy answers to the problem of child abuse and bad parents The state wants foster care to be vetted, monitored and guaranteed "good parents" as a backup safety net for all the bad parents out there but that's a fucking tall order and they fail constantly
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