meoh-my.

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And DFCS came back in November 2008 for her fifth child, Debbi, just 14 days old.

“I begged them not to take my baby,” said Domitina Mendez, 24, “but the interpreter told me to calm down or it was going to be worse.”

Since then, the five children have been cared for by a foster family who wants to adopt them, even as the Mendezes try to regain custody.

A hearing to have their case reopened is set for Thursday in Whitfield County Juvenile Court after a June 2011 ruling that terminated their parental rights.

In her ruling, Judge Connie Blaylock said she didn’t believe the parents could care adequately for the five children with their complicated medical needs and the dozens of medical appointments they require every month.

But advocates working with the family believe their inability to speak English and their illegal status were the main factors that led to the rights termination.

Dalton couple fights to regain custody of their five children | timesfreepress.com

yeah, you know what? I think this has less to do with them speaking spanish, and more to do with that big bolded part up there— US citizens want some children. And what better way to get some cheap home made kids without having to worry about birth family contact attempts or wait for years and years?

fuck this shit. fuck it all.

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This is so fucked. They target women like this. Why are they taking her 14 day old child anyways, how you neglect your child in 14 days? Oh, they already deemed her unfit to reproduce on her own terms. And yea, I’m sure wanting to adopt families needs trump the mothers, all because of U.S. citizen status, language, and race if the adopting family is white. Whoever said those weren’t factors in the article are lying and enough evidence supports this all plays a huge effect in the judgement of these cases. 

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*lights torch* Fuck this shit…

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This is how the system works. “We don’t think you can handle taking your kids to dozens of doctors appointments each month.”

So does DFCS provide support to HELP the parents get their kids to all their dozens of appointments, something MOST people would struggle with?

Nope, just take the kids away. THAT’S how the system works.

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this is vomit inducing bullshit. i feel sick.

i spent a good bit of my childhood living in a beat up roach motel in whitfield county, ga, in constant fear of being taken away if anyone found out how we had to live. once, a teacher followed us from school and found out what was going on, but she didn’t say a word. i guarantee that if we hadn’t been white and documented, my parents would have lost custody. but she kept our secret, and when my dad died a few years later we finally got out and moved into a little trailer. living in that motel was awful and scary; i know my mom was in constant fear of losing us, and that the crushing poverty we experienced was so fucking hard for her. but, we didn’t get removed. our secret was safe. that’s white privilege; that’s why you can’t talk about class without talking about race, and citizenship status, and a whole fucking host of other factors.

i hope ms. mendez can get her kids back. god.

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