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“Unlike kids in family homes, kids in foster care today rely on a separate state agency, Residential Child Care Investigations, to look into reports of suspected abuse or neglect. That agency has a tendency to downgrade abuse reports without ever investigating them. During four months in 2019, the agency ruled out nearly half of the more than nine hundred abuse reports it received- with no investigation whatsoever.”
― Roxanna Asgarian, We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

“If you come from privilege,' she explained, 'and you respect money and power, and the people in your court don't have any of that- it's unconcious and sometimes concious racism and classism.”
― Roxanna Asgarian, We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

“In fact, about 75 percent of child welfare cases involve not abuse but neglect, which can often be caused by or confused with poverty.”
― Roxanna Asgarian, We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

“Nothing fills a child with bloodlust faster than a game of musical chairs.”
― Erin Baldwin, Wish You Weren't Here