[ SECRET POST #4543 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4543 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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03. [SPOILERS for Avengers Endgame]



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05. [SPOILERS for Godzilla: King of the Monsters]



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06. [WARNING for discussion of child sexual abuse]



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07. [WARNING for discussion of rape]

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, I just looked this up; apparently the US government publishes yearly summaries of the total number of kids in foster care, how old they are, how many are adopted per year, etc.

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/research-data-technology/statistics-research/afcars

According to the latest available report, from 2017...

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cb/afcarsreport25.pdf

There were 442,995 kids in foster care. 27% of them were reunited with their parents, 4% were living with other relatives, and 13% were adopted. 4.5% were emancipated, which sounds like “aged out of the system” to me.

Yes, people want to adopt (healthy, preferably white) babies. I think it would be cruel and irresponsible to add more children to the foster system without also ensuring safe, permanent, loving homes for all the children already there, and stupid to do so without also making it virtually impossible, via comprehensive sex ed and mandatory birth control use for both sexes starting at puberty, for unwanted babies to be a thing in the first place. Using uneducated, abused, or simply unlucky mothers as, basically, brood mares to get more adoptable babies is disgusting.