Coverage in The NY Times:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/us/hart-family-crash.amp.html People thought bad things were happening and yet no one saved them. |
That picture is so creepy - starving kids posing with overced mom, apparently there was forced teeth whitening and what the hell is all of that ‘Goonies’ stuff? Those poor kids. Those evil women really needed a severe beat down . |
A reporter tracked down these kids’ birth parents. Essentially, the state of Texas kidnapped these kids from extended family and put them up onto “Texas Adoption Resource Exchange” to give away to white families.
This is crazy: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/books/review/we-were-once-a-family-roxanna-asgarian.html |
Wow. Texas treated these kids like a foreclosed house at a tax sale. “Before a caseworker sent them to foster care, Devonte, Jeremiah and Ciera had been living with their aunt Priscilla. Their mother had a cocaine problem, and was advised by a lawyer to terminate her parental rights to make it easier for Priscilla to adopt the siblings. But termination ensnared the family in a bureaucratic trap. From then on, Asgarian writes, “the children would be free for adoption not just by Priscilla, but by any interested party.” Priscilla was still filing petitions to get the children back in her care when the state placed them on the Texas Adoption Resource Exchange. Not only has it pulled in a disproportionately large share of federal money intended to reward states for finding homes for prospective adoptees; Texas has also had a hand in producing those adoptees, terminating birth parents’ rights “at a rate that far outstripped the rest of the nation.” |
This is sick. My God. |
It is not the "state of Texas", it is one particular person who made that decision to take the kids away from their maternal aunt and to give them for adoption to a white lesbian couple instead. This racist should be identified and at least fired. |
Investigators found a super creepy scene at the house: it was eerily clean. Like, museum clean.
Spotless. So disturbing! |
So I looked up the Texas Adoption Resource Exchange and you can just go on their website to pick out a kid.
https://www.dfps.texas.gov/application/TARE/Search.aspx/Children |
Only in Texas |
A friend of mine in Texas worked briefly in the state foster care system and emerged traumatized. |
Wow. |
This was five years ago |
I honestly don’t understand how anyone believes the myth of “giving a kid a good home” anymore. There is such profound sickness in the system. |
Crazy. |