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And that's how my mother got kidnapped and sold by the hospital director when she was a newborn. We are brazilian but our biological family is half-indigenous
I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.
One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.
Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.
Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.
So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.
It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.
That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.
News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.
Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:
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I'm on this post and I don't like it
She’s a 10 but she lives off of academic validation while simultaneously procrastinating like she’s been promised immortality
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Vaginismus/vulvodynia: Sad. Pitiful. Unbangable. Sounds like a disease.
Selective penetrability: Fancy. Sounds like a scientific term. Makes it feel like a evolutionary selected trait.
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Zoozve, my beloved
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I'm so sorry to all the gay couples that thought I was judging them. I was staring because you are SO FREAKING CUTE
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I thought relationships would get easier as an adult, but everybody seems so numb. No one seems to care about feelings and physical touch became meaningless. I wish someone could sweep me of my feet and make me feel loved like when I was a teen.
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The Adrien Agreste energy is strong in this post
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The fact that my classes were canceled for the day makes it feel like an actual holiday
No one:
Tumblr users at 00:00 on March 15th:
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Mr Gaiman what is your favorite ice cream flavor?
I think the ritual of stabbing Julius Caesar on the Ides of March is an important Tumblr tradition that needs to be maintained for coming generations.
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Rebloging cus this might be useful
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I call it dummysexual
I’m proud to identify as morosexual. I’m attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. A guy asked me what the Spanish word for tortilla was once and now I dream of kissing him under the moonlight
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Launching my first art blogs with a small comic based on the amazing words of Ursula K. Le Guin!
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That's be beeing a straight up hottie after crying for hours over the fact that I can't have sex without getting drunk and still feeling excruciating pain
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