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IamSauerKraut t1_ixd1f63 wrote

People are surprised?

Kendall Chick was not the first and, as we have all discovered, not the last.

Abused kids are more likely to end up in SoPo than they are to be well cared for by that indifferent social services agency.

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mydraal561 t1_ixd3n1u wrote

Indifferent and poorly funded are very different. I know a lot who care but the need outweighs the funds

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IamSauerKraut t1_ixdaof7 wrote

I spent nearly all of my teenage years as a ward of the state.

One of my foster brothers and his wife work for the agency. Rabid right-wingers who have long blamed foster kids for the situations they find themselves in. Estranged from his sisters.

The problem is systemic.

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