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Relevant_Quantity_49 t1_jeh5egw wrote

Reply to comment by ScaledFloof in US Marine’s adoption of Afghan war orphan voided by flounder19

Sadly that is as American as apple pie.

>In the 1950s and ’60s, as the American Indian boarding schools fell out of favor, a new wave of assimilation policy went into effect: adoption of Native children into white homes. The Indian Adoption Project, which ran from 1958-67, was a partnership between the federal government and the Child Welfare League of America and churches around the country whose stated goal was the adoption of Native children by white families. At the time, “matching” of adoptive children with their adoptive parents was a common practice, meant to allow adoptive parents to pass their children off as biologically related. “One little, two little, three little Indians — and 206 more — are brightening the homes and lives of 172 American families, mostly non-Indians, who have taken the Indian waifs as their own,” a 1966 Bureau of Indian Affairs press release boasted. > >By the 1970s, the removal of Native children to white families was so widespread that, when the BIA commissioned a federal task force to research the phenomenon, it found that 25% to 35% of Native children around the country were removed from their homes, and 85% of those children were adopted by white families. ICWA was created in response to the report, and Congress passed the law in 1978.

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Goofygrrrl t1_jeh3kop wrote

Reply to comment by thejikz in Tornado slams Little Rock, smashes rooftops, flips vehicles by LiteratureImmediate4

I can speak from a hurricane perspective but rebuilding is challenging. First decisions have to be made about your kids and family. If to or three schools are destroyed you likely are going to need to get housing in a district that they can remain in, until schools are rebuilt. If you have family that needs dialysis or medical care, you may have to move to a temporary place until hospital services are rebuilt. You may not have mail service for a while which means you can’t just order something from Amazon. No cell service and no maps means just bringing in stuff is challenging. There no trash service, there may be no water service so even if you want to stay, often you can’t because child protective services or adult productive services can come after you. You really need access to an RV or #van life to stay at your place. Bugs in the south and heat become significant issues. Sanitation services become an issue because there’s no toilet and you can only pee in your backyard so many times before you realize “this is not good” There no local store and there’s likely little to no gas just to get around. It can all be a challenge and in some places it just doesn’t come back. It’s hard to rebuild a town with everyone has to abandon it.

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Brodman_area11 t1_jeh3kl8 wrote

Reply to US Marine’s adoption of Afghan war orphan voided by flounder19

He decided to “adopt” her so she could be rescued in to Christianity, saying she had no relatives, while paying for said relatives medical bills, and refusing to reconnect them once they made it to the US?

Surely part of this story is missing. No one is that cartoonishly evil.

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