Alan Dettlaff
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first heard Jul 2026
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because they're so deathly afraid of being taken from their parents.
I agree completely.
It's particularly complex when we're talking about these really serious forms of abuse, medical child abuse being one of them, because there's just not easy answers to those questions.
But I think we
We need to be having the conversations and we need to, I think one thing that frustrates me that I find disingenuous about some aspects of the anti-abolition movement are people that care so much about children being safe from harm in their homes, but completely disregard the harm that the system inflicts.
We have to be talking about both of those things and what to do to eliminate both of them.
And I think if we could get to the point where we agree that both of those things need to stop,
then we could figure out the solutions.
Yeah, there's really two aspects of it.
One, we know that just the act of family separation severely harms children.
um and we we know this particularly in in recent years from all of the doctors and pediatricians and psychiatrists who called out that harm during the zero tolerance policy of 2018 there were doctors who said that forcibly taking children away from their parents is tantamount to torture because of the harm that it causes children the severe
psychological harm that it causes to children.
Psychological harm that results in things like sleeping disorders and depression and learning disabilities, substance use problems later in life, suicidal behaviors.
So there's just the act of family separation that's harmful.
But then think of what happens after family separation.
Children go into a home with strangers,
They're often moved multiple times.
They change schools multiple times.
And what we know is that children who spend time in foster care as adults have significantly poor outcomes, more likely to be incarcerated, more likely to have substance use problems, mental health problems,
more likely to be unemployed, living in poverty, houseless.
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