*[Enwl-eng] Children are being treated like animals, and Facebook seems to be allowing it

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                        These poor kids have been through enough.
                       
                 
           
                       
                 
           
                       
                 
           
                        People Are "Listing" Adopted and Fostered Children on Facebook Like Troublesome Pets That Need 

                        Re-homing. The Posts Are Horrifying.
                       
                 
           
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                        Imagine you are a child who is already going through one of the most difficult things imaginable: growing up without a permanent home, shuffled through the foster care or adoption systems. It's already confusing, emotional, and even scary. Then, you find out you're going to live with a new family -- complete strangers who your current temporary family basically sold you to on Facebook. 



                        Yes, you read that right: Facebook has been hosting groups -- entirely unregulated by the adoption industry -- where adoptive or foster parents are trying to re-home vulnerable kids. The language used in these listings is vile: one flaunts a child that is a "great hugger," grossly suggesting the point of adoption is to find a baby that will satisfy your physical affection needs. Another boasts that a child "comes with a special $2,000 a day contract," as if they are not a human being but a gig economy opportunity or a new computer. 



                        Not only are these posts dehumanizing and degrading; they are creating a dangerous, unregulated process, putting already vulnerable kids at further risk of abuse, displacement, and trauma (studies show that re-homing a child increases the likelihood of depression and mood disorders). There are literal human beings with full, complex lives being reduced to a Facebook ad, and Facebook is doing nothing about it. In a post-Roe world, it is likely even more kids will be cycled into the troubled foster care and adoption systems -- we need action, now. Sign the petition now to demand that Facebook shut down all of these groups and revise their policy to prevent anything like this in the future!
                       
                 
           
                       
                 Thank you,

                        Lauren

                        Care2 Petitions Team
                       
                 
           
                        P.S. Facebook is hosting groups where adoptive and foster parents can list the children depending on them like animals in need of re-homing. Sign the petition.
                       
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From: Lauren W., Care2 Action Alerts 
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 7:04 PM
Subject: Children are being treated like animals, and Facebook seems to be allowing it

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