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The "government will fix it" fallacy.
Still waiting on that one. Forty years here, personally. I'm not even a child anymore. In fact, I think I just hit menopause.
Quoting: TlvmmCpoft Are you saying you aged out of the system? I'm so sorry. It's a shame that people don't really give a shit about the kids. Someone gave me red karma and said I'm virtue signaling. No, the ones really virtue signaling are the ones who act appalled by trafficking and yet DO NOTHING!!!
I was never in it. Skipped that step. Went directly from trafficked to illegally adopted. No passing Go, no collecting the American dream and a McDonald's cheeseburger.
Everyone was too scared to question it just because "new mom" was Yale affiliated.
Most just chose to close their eyes and say "but you two have the same hair," as if mine weren't dyed and straightened for 12 years straight.
Then it moved onto "but the nonprofit organizations handle that."
Then of course the non-profits don't actually "handle that" because all their funding is tied up in trafficking more kids into the US, not out of it. So, "they don't have the funding." Traffic doesn't run in that direction, not even in the "do-gooder" corner.
As for the police, they're so full up on trafficking cases that, unlike in made-for-TV movies, when I went to them as a teenager, they didn't open a case. They told me they had enough illegals to deal with and I was on my own to find my parents.
By that point I was no longer in the same country as them, could only remember my mother's first name, and no longer spoke the language.
So, yeah. And I ended up in entitled land (remember - Yale affiliated), capable of speaking and writing in English to present my case clearly. If I couldn't get out, how in the living fuck is any child with less opportunity going to manage it?
