WinterIsAdopted🌬️💙

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“Its been 2 years since I first invited speakers into our Adoptee Only Zoom Chat. To mark the occasion I invited all the speakers from that first month to one zoom. They all agreed so I am delighted to say that @anneheffron, @adopteelaw and @HHHRetreats will join us on Sun 8th Jan”

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History has primed and desensitized many of us to believe that some families are more valuable and worth supporting than others. Adoption and Child Welfare Industry revenue reached $20.5 billion-with-a-B in 2022. That money is used to separate vulnerable children from their families and pay strangers to care for them, rather than supporting them in place with their parents or other relatives.

In Six Months or Less, Some Parents Lose Their Kids Forever

Twenty-five years ago, Congress passed a law aimed at speeding up adoptions of children languishing in foster care. In the process, it destroyed hundreds of thousands of families through the termination of parental rights.

https://www.propublica.org/article/six-months-or-less-parents-lose-kids-forever @ProPublica @nbcnews

The “Death Penalty” of Child Welfare: In Six Months or Less, Some Parents Lose Their Kids Forever

Twenty-five years ago, Congress passed a law aimed at speeding up adoptions of children languishing in foster care. In the process, it destroyed hundreds of thousands of families through the termination of parental rights.

ProPublica
a gentle reminder that whatever you got done this year is good enough and you are good enough ✌🏼✌🏽✌🏾
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Hey #adopteetwitter!
It's Winter!
Please follow me.
I can't find you! 🙃
I'm slow to migrate because I didn't want to bring all of the negative energy with me.
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#adopteevoices #adoptee

Any fellow #asthmatics have any advice? #Asthma wants to kill me.
Today I got the dreaded steroid shot. This time in my hip instead of my butt like last time. It's a huge needle and both hurt but the butt shot was worse. Then the doc told me to buy a nebulizer which I used for the first time. Right now I feel worse than when I woke up.
Last week I went to the doc & got Azithromax, Prednisone, & an albuterol inhaler. Barely took the edge off.

Today is my biological father's 85th birthday. He never knew I existed, and always wanted a boy. But he did have four wonderful daughters who I am so happy to call my sisters.

Gary Mac Martin
12/24/37 - 1/26/08

Gary on the left, me on the right
#adoption #adoptees

A group of protestors painted a street mural that reads "Oligarchy" in front of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters today.

Traction control was a rather expensive optional extra on this model.

#dogs #dogsofmastodon #funny #fun