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Foster care. I don’t have a leftist analysis of this. Just a lot of personal experience and bitter hatred. It’s a violent ass institution that’s rife with abuse, racism, and class warfare
I think something like 65% of foster children end up homeless as adults if not more. I agree, it is totally fucked. Child Protective Services as well. I couldve been taken away from my mom when I was young... I lived a very traumatic childhood but who knows what the hell couldve happened to me if I was placed in foster care
CPS is also racist as shit. anecdotally, im white, so when they visited me they had no interest in even asking me if anything happened. then this black kid i knew growing up got taken from his mom for basically nothing (don't remember what it was exactly i met the guy years ago) and put in a shitty foster home where the lady running it was also racist
I feel like that goes without saying, but that example just really illustrates how fucked it is. I'm sure being white contributed to my not being separated. I remember the social worker being a black lady, but a broken system is a broken system
Foster care and the welfare of and for the children need to be rebuilt from the ground up.
How should it be done?
I'd want to look more closer towards the Soviet and all other socialist state systems. If I recall, Anna Louise Strong's books, specifically 'this Soviet world', have sections detailing the treatment of orphans in the post-revolutionary war period. I remember being rather impressed with what I read at the time. I also can think whatever adjustments I'd personally make would include working on destigmatizing the negative perception of being an orphan or a foster child among a plethora of other subjects that would need to be addressed.
Insofar as I'm concerned no child should be subject to abuse or alienation regardless of the circumstances of their birth or life.