Daily 850 children in this nation are removed from their families.  Legally kidnapped by the Child Protection System and sold into the foster care system and adoption.  Our Social SecurityTitle IV provides federal funding to the states that meet the yearly quotas for adoption.  Our families are being destroyed in this nation, by removing children.  Children grow up not knowing who they are or where they came from.  This is all done for profit to the states via child trafficking.  80% of the children removed from families by Child Protection are done for profit through use of false allegations.  Children die 7 times faster in state care than in parental care.  Help stop the abuse of our nations children! 

There are many sources for research into the plight of social orphans, ie those in institutional care due to economic circumstance. Today I found a summary of some of the more heavy reading: 

ORPHAN STATISTICS

The statistics will amaze you:
1. There are over 100,000 orphans in Ukraine.
2. The older an orphan gets, the chances for his/her adoption drastically decrease.
3. Each year many orphans between 15 to 18-years-old leave the orphanages.
4. Most of these orphans have no one to turn to for help.
5. About 10% of them will commit suicide after leaving the orphanage before their eighteenth birthday.
6. 60% of the girls will end up in prostitution
7. 70% of the boys will enter a life of crime
8. Only 27% of these youth will find work
These youth live in a country that labels them as “useless” and gives no assistance to turn their lives around. It is a society that has created its own problem by placing thousands of children in orphanages, and then when they come of age, they give them no assistance to lead a successful life. It is almost as if the system places them in trade schools to become “slaves of the State” to fill the low-income jobs of unskilled labor and remain the under-trodden, 2nd-class citizens that the majority of the population of Ukraine believe that they are.

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My interests include the rose revolutions particularly in Ukraine, institutional childcare, modern day slavery, poverty reduction and social business.

So if anyone else  here is interested in these topics, I'd be glad to be part of your network

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