The commissioners overseeing the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls heard testimony Thursday about how the lack of cultural supports, and prevention services results in a higher number of kids in care.
The inquiry is continuing its hearings in Winnipeg, in a province with the highest rate of apprehensions in the country.
And for the first time, the inquiry heard about the need for a federal child welfare agency.
Child ‘welfare’ is most of the time neither for children, families. It is for indemnifying social workers for their disrupting relationship bonds, priming young people for a life of crime & dependency on the system that orchestrates their plight, warring against original caregivers by depriving them of adequate access to their children/grandchildren. It is a war against the marginalised, adding rage, despair & self destructive habits to their anguish.
Instead, nuclear & extended families need to be permitted to nurture their young ones, except where there is abuse. Supports need to be given individuals & families who require rehab, respite for single parents or overburdened couples. Counseling & parenting skills should be taught & strengthened. If a child must be ‘apprehended’ the child’s grandparents, uncles, aunts, et al should be recognized as potential caregivers, not the onerous, greedy, sadistic gov.
As a relative of children unjustly & deceitfully made ‘perm wards’ of CFS in MB, & a former HSW, & having listened to so many heartrending testimonies of kids used as labor & sex slaves in foster ‘care’, or bought by foster parents who are wealthier (gov financial rewards for foster parents further adds to the inequities between them & the birth parent(s) & helps to perpetuate this thieving, unjust system) I am among many thousands who are thankful for those who are joining us in praying for & fighting for better ways to invest in present & future generations.
Child ‘welfare’ is most of the time neither for children, families. It is for indemnifying social workers for their disrupting relationship bonds, priming young people for a life of crime & dependency on the system that orchestrates their plight, warring against original caregivers by depriving them of adequate access to their children/grandchildren. It is a war against the marginalised, adding rage, despair & self destructive habits to their anguish.
Instead, nuclear & extended families need to be permitted to nurture their young ones, except where there is abuse. Supports need to be given individuals & families who require rehab, respite for single parents or overburdened couples. Counseling & parenting skills should be taught & strengthened. If a child must be ‘apprehended’ the child’s grandparents, uncles, aunts, et al should be recognized as potential caregivers, not the onerous, greedy, sadistic gov.
As a relative of children unjustly & deceitfully made ‘perm wards’ of CFS in MB, & a former HSW, & having listened to so many heartrending testimonies of kids used as labor & sex slaves in foster ‘care’, or bought by foster parents who are wealthier (gov financial rewards for foster parents further adds to the inequities between them & the birth parent(s) & helps to perpetuate this thieving, unjust system) I am among many thousands who are thankful for those who are joining us in praying for & fighting for better ways to invest in present & future generations.