THe Children's aid society was founded over a hundred years ago. What it would do is take immigrant children from the slums of NY whose parents were either dirt poor , alcoholics or single fathers (and sometimes mothers) and put them on trains to other parts of America- usually rural parts and platform them in front of these farm families who would then either bid or voluntarily take the kids into their home to raise them. THe catch was that many of these children were torn from their families without consent and/or became laborers in their new "family". It was rare that the children adopted out of the CAS were treated as the families biological children were. THere were some good stories to come out of the CAS, but overall, there are many painful histories of torn families and missing siblings, etc from that era.
While this situation is a bit different, CAS is imposing abandonment of the children as a way of trying to give them a "better" life instead of supporting the family unit as a whole, which , when possible, is always the best solution...After over a hundred years, you'd think we'd learn something....
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history repeating itself in a new way
Date: 2005-03-22 07:51 pm (UTC)While this situation is a bit different, CAS is imposing abandonment of the children as a way of trying to give them a "better" life instead of supporting the family unit as a whole, which , when possible, is always the best solution...After over a hundred years, you'd think we'd learn something....