Category: Abandonment
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Post-Roe: What’s Going to Happen to the Children?
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Repeal of Roe and subsequent loss of personal freedoms also comes with increased neglect of unwanted children, Child Protective Services and Foster Care. And in some states laws may affect in vitro fertilization, severe pregnancy complications, miscarriage management, and contraception. Even criminalizing abortion and miscarriages.
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I Didn’t Know the Gun Was Loaded . . .
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I used to play with Daddy’s gun when I was a child. Now I cringe whenever i hear about a child shooting or killing another child or their parent or themselves. Freaks me out to realizeI could have been that child. Another unintended shooting – on the set of ‘Rust’ when the cinematographer and director…
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Feeling Left Behind
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The arrival in the US of the recent Afghan interpreter evacuees has a profound effect on me both for keeping a promise and thinking about those left behind – also for my own personal experiences with feeling ‘left behind.’
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Please Don’t Say “Get Over It”
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Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney telling us to “Get over it,” regarding the phone call between President Trump and President Zelenskyeally of the Ukraine made me cringe. Too many times I’ve heard someone say this to me regarding painful experiences in my life.I
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When Children Are Exploited By Our Government
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Forced separation from parents is only part of the story. What about the thousands of unaccounted for children? Will they be reunited? Or will unethical people attempt to make money from exploitation and human trafficking, including adoption, of these infants and children? And now lots of reports of sexual abuse of children.#FamiliesBelongTogether #Immigration
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When a Parent Goes Missing – Bouncing From Security to Despair – Even Exploitation
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Forced separation from parents is only part of the story. What about the thousands of unaccounted for children? Will they be reunited with their parents? Or will unethical people attempt to make money from exploitation and human trafficking, including adoption, of these infants and children? #FamiliesBelongTogether #Immigration
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Young Prince Harry and Me – 12 years old and losing our mothers in a crash
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Since the day Princess Diana was killed in a car crash I’ve felt a kindred-spirited-ness with Prince Harry. I, too, was 12 years old when my mother was killed decades earlier in a plane crash. And like Prince Harry, I wasn’t able to talk about it for many years.