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My cousin's daughter was put into a christian foster home in 2000, her father had been abusing her and my cousin was considered too simple minded to care for her on her own. The foster parents treated her child horrendously, victim blamed her for her own abuse, made her wear winter sweaters during the heat of summer as punishment and would often not feed her. I saw what she was wearing during a family reunion and when my cousin told me why I exploded, asked another cousin that had a daughter about her age and size to get her a more summer season appropriate shirt that fit her and to change her into it. I was livid, even more so because the other relatives ignored it because they had little care for my cousin's daughter, she was the product of a rape, yet the family accused my cousin of lying about it because she was friends with the guy who did it, forcing her to keep Courtney, her daughter, and not have an abortion, despite being 20 when Mindy, my cousin, was violated. And my mother just cannot understand why I despise her side of the family so much. Because of this, and other things, Courtney lives with her girlfriend and her family, avoiding ours like the plague.