Parenting traumatized children is harder than I thought.

@CountScrofula Foster care is next level. You're dealing with the unknown.

@V00doo Yeah. The system is so cruel, and the kids are ALWAYS traumatized because they were forcibly taken from their parents by the gov't - and had to be in a situation so bad that it happened in the first place.

There's also unbelievable racial politics about how its handled in Canada because you have endless Indigenous kids being handed over to white families. It's just a whole thing.

@CountScrofula 😶 My husband was telling me about similar things in the states. He thinks just because his mum is white, that he didn't get taken away from her. His dad was Native American

@V00doo Yeah it's the same politics. To this day we see huge racial disparity in families losing children and shit like forced sterilizations of Indigenous women at hospitals.

There's a lot of very cruel history but the present day is only marginally improved.

@CountScrofula Our laws on that can be pretty fucked here but I wouldn't have been able to get these kids without tribal involvement because of my health issues. It worked out for us.