from the Orphan Train movement to Indigenous boarding schools to Georgia Tann and the Tennessee Children’s Home, punishing marginalized people by “rehoming” and “reparenting” their children is a through-line in US history.
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Amanda Katz
Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
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For anybody to take someone else’s child because they want to be parents is inhumane.
Custodial care doesn’t require adoption, complete w/ a falsified birth certificate and erasure of a previous identity.
Do you have a good source for orphan trains?
This evangelical humanitarianism [was] echoed… [after WWII w/ intl. adoptions].”🥚