every time @selentelechia tells me stories about the foster system I think to myself "boy i want the state to have more say in the raising of my children"
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apparently one of her brothers had to have tubes put in his ears for infections, and a court took months to approve operation, which apparently courts have to do in order for foster kids to get medical care
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this had to go through the state health system, and was paid for by foster coupons these coupons didnt cover painkillers so they just sent him home and said "have him take tylenol ig" selene's folks said jesus we will pay for painkillers NOPE not allowed sorry two year old kid
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Replying to @eigenrobot
In something which is other-than-an-irony, one way to end up in foster care is for your parents to make the same set of decisions on the same timescale but fail to have paperwork for them. This is called "neglect." Corollaries about revealed preferences, seeing like a state, etc
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I often think of how critical of a skill it is for functionaries of a system to remain illegible to the system they are functionaries for, in a way which is crucially neither non-compliance nor actual compliance, and how little cognitive dissonance this requires of them.
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Replying to @patio11 @eigenrobot
Examples of this abound. One which I didn't understand as a child: There was once a DCFS person who forcibly removed a child from the presence of parents, was later apprised that they had taken the wrong child, acknowledged error, and then held off on releasing child to parents.
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Replying to @patio11 @eigenrobot
In my childlike naïveté, I asked why the police, who were at both interactions, did not immediately arrest the DFCS person on suspicion of kidnapping, having witnessed a kidnapping. Twice. I now understand that society values government jobs more than it objects to kidnapping.
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And indeed I bleakly think that many people reading this will wonder "Were you the kidnapped child, Patrick?", conclude that is extremely unlikely based on my social class, realize the Department Of Almost Never Kidnapping Children generates this outcome not infrequently, etc.
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im discovering ever higher states of btfsttg
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