Being a foster child is hard

but they put you in Colorado…. I spent almost a year working with child welfare, in Oklahoma, which makes states with funding and staff look like a trip to Disneyland. The breaking point for me was when a child in our care needed a medical treatment, but we didn’t have it in state, so they kept shipping her around to hospitals that couldn’t help her.

/Foster care sucks, no doubt. Being put up with strange people, who just as often can’t replicate your home of origin is difficult. Meanwhile just as often the people who could take good care of the child don’t have the patience or money to use the system.

There is a saying that to look at how civilized a society is, look at who it imprisons, but I’d say looking at the state of childhood for our species should be enough to make anyone weep for the future. Should, people are pointlessly positive even in the face of endemic trauma and abuse.