Category: Modern Parenting,

Border Patrol Kicked, Punched Migrant Children, Threatened Some With Sexual Abuse, ACLU Alleges

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Mitra Ebadolahi, ACLU Border Litigation Project staff attorney, said the allegations describe a law enforcement system “marked by brutality and lawlessness.” The organization also accused Border Protection officials of failing to “meaningfully investigate” the allegations detailed in the public records.

…“The misconduct demonstrated in these records is breathtaking, as is the government’s complete failure to hold officials who abuse their power accountable.”

Border Patrol Kicked, Punched Migrant Children, Threatened Some With Sexual Abuse, ACLU Alleges

This was existing culture before things were ramped up….

Botched family reunifications left migrant children waiting in vans overnight

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But when the children, all between 5 and 12 years old, arrived at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s adults-only Port Isabel Detention Center, rather than seeing their parents, they saw a parking lot full of vans just like theirs, with children from other facilities who, just like them, were waiting to be processed and reunified with their parents.

Not until 39 hours later — after two nights in a van — did the last child step out of a van to be reunited. 

…There was no one present to greet the arriving children and they were not equipped to process them in a parking lot.

…ICE told BCFS staff that if the children returned to Harlingen, they would be further delayed in seeing their parents. The children began to sleep in the vans.

Botched family reunifications left migrant children waiting in vans overnight

Are you fucking kidding me???!
We remove children from their parent’s homes for less.
The officers involved belong in jail.

Woman whose rapist was granted joint custody of child speaks out – CBS News

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Woman whose rapist was granted joint custody of child speaks out – CBS News

Agggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Why the fuck can people who are involved with out in-justice system fucking THINK?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The judge who made the original ruling should be in jail.

Trump Administration to LGBT Couples: Your ‘Out of Wedlock’ Kids Aren’t Citizens

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…A government policy that effectively de-recognizes her parents’ marriage, granting her no automatic rights to American birthright citizenship despite the fact that both her fathers are U.S. citizens. 

…That “assumption of parentage,” as the State Department calls it, now seems to LGBT parents to be reserved solely for heterosexual married couples. 

…“The U.S. Department of State interprets the INA to mean that a child born abroad must be biologically related to a U.S. citizen parent,” the State Department’s website says. “Even if local law recognizes a surrogacy agreement and finds that U.S. parents are the legal parents of a child conceived and born abroad… if the child does not have a biological connection to a U.S. citizen parent, the child will not be a U.S. citizen at birth.”

The Kivitis are each biologically related to their children. Under the policy, however, children born via gestational surrogacy and other forms of assisted reproductive technology (ART) are considered to be born “out of wedlock,” in the State Department’s words—even if their parents, like Roee and Adiel, are legally married.

…Children born out of wedlock face higher legal and logistical hurdles to obtaining birthright citizenship: In addition to submission of DNA tests proving genetic links to U.S. citizen parents, their parents must be able to testify that they can support their children financially, and must prove that they have been present in the United States for at least five years prior to the child’s birth. 

Trump Administration to LGBT Couples: Your ‘Out of Wedlock’ Kids Aren’t Citizens

WTF????!

Un-American.

Cesarean section complication risk rises with mother’s age, study finds

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Mothers 35 and older who had C-sections without first going into labor were five times more likely to have severe complications than mothers who had vaginal births.

Cesarean section complication risk rises with mother’s age, study finds

hmmmm, isn’t it older mother’s that have scheduled Cesarean’s more often?

Wouldn’t follow that complications arise more often in C-sections that start after labor, because that would mean there was an existing complication suggesting the need to a c-section in the first place?