Alan Dettlaff
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269 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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We need to try things.
We need to say, we can't continue to do this.
I think a point I tried to make in the book is that
Slavery eventually became abolished because people realized we just cannot accept this in a moral society, the society that we want to be.
And I think we need to get to that point today to say we cannot accept that the state is forcibly separating 200,000 children from their parents every year and putting them in homes with strangers where they're even more likely to be harmed.
We have to say we just cannot accept that.
We don't have to know exactly what we're going to do in order to say we're going to commit to stopping doing this.
And then we can figure it out as we go forward.
I know some of those things involve the things I was just saying, housing, medical care, education, safe schools, all of those things.
And then we can try other things.
And then we can try other things to see what's going to happen, to see what's going to work.
I always like to point out how I don't have all the answers.
I know.
It's okay.
I don't know that this is the right context.
I don't know that this is the right answer.
What I thought of as you were saying that, particularly as you talked about the doctor who was fearful of reporting because of potential consequences, the first thing that popped into my head was
The teenage girl who's being sexually abused by her father, who's afraid to tell anyone about it because she thinks if she does, she'll be taken away from her family.
That to me is the counter in some ways to that, that we have to do something about that too.
If we really care about protecting children, then we have to acknowledge that some children do not report the harm they're experiencing
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