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Trafficking?
1) WAY more the guys at Home Depot you hire for $30/day to tear out the weeds, not children.
2) And the women who sew all the cheap crap you wear.
3) And the people who pick your vegetables.
4) teens thrown out of their parents’ home & forced into sex work to eat.
1) WAY more the guys at Home Depot you hire for $30/day to tear out the weeds, not children.
2) And the women who sew all the cheap crap you wear.
3) And the people who pick your vegetables.
4) teens thrown out of their parents’ home & forced into sex work to eat.
It’s not little kids.
Or at least, it’s not abducted little kids.
The little kids who *do* get trafficked are generally trafficked *by their parents* or guardians. They’re sold or coerced into marriage. To pay a debt or fulfill a prophecy or just because it ensures purity.
Or at least, it’s not abducted little kids.
The little kids who *do* get trafficked are generally trafficked *by their parents* or guardians. They’re sold or coerced into marriage. To pay a debt or fulfill a prophecy or just because it ensures purity.
Yes, there are parents who traffick their own children for sex. But it’s their own parents.
Not strangers.
The kids are raised to think it’s normal to go with Daddy’s friend at the pool.
Or to take care of Mommy’s friend, and there will be ice cream after.
Stranger Danger is
Not strangers.
The kids are raised to think it’s normal to go with Daddy’s friend at the pool.
Or to take care of Mommy’s friend, and there will be ice cream after.
Stranger Danger is
The kids being trafficked in the United States right now?
Mostly LGBTQ teenagers from conservative/fundie families.
And teens who have been abused, and figured being on the street wouldn’t kill them faster than their abuser.
Mostly LGBTQ teenagers from conservative/fundie families.
And teens who have been abused, and figured being on the street wouldn’t kill them faster than their abuser.
Followed by brown kids whose parents tried to get asylum. ICE separated them, put them in distant counties where judges terminated parental rights. Private Christian adoption firms seem to be placing these kids that ICE stole.
Those are the ones you should worry about.
Those are the ones you should worry about.
REAL DATA:
Less than 350 people under 21 have been abducted by strangers since 2010.
95% of the people reported missing are runaways — and there’s no follow-up. If a teenager turns up with their other parent/aunt/SO? The missing report isn’t resolved. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wisconsin-missinggirl-data/kidnapped-children-make-headlines-but-abduction-is-rare-in-u-s-idUSKCN1P52BJ
Less than 350 people under 21 have been abducted by strangers since 2010.
95% of the people reported missing are runaways — and there’s no follow-up. If a teenager turns up with their other parent/aunt/SO? The missing report isn’t resolved. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-wisconsin-missinggirl-data/kidnapped-children-make-headlines-but-abduction-is-rare-in-u-s-idUSKCN1P52BJ
There are about 2500 Non-Custodial parent/relative abductions per year.
But that’s the ex, or the ex’s sister, or the grandparents. It’s immediately family, usually in a battle over SOMETHING ELSE, but becomes about the kid.
These ALSO don’t get marked as resolved.
But that’s the ex, or the ex’s sister, or the grandparents. It’s immediately family, usually in a battle over SOMETHING ELSE, but becomes about the kid.
These ALSO don’t get marked as resolved.
The teenager who runs away about once a month for a weekend? Twelve specific reports, zero resolutions.
The teenager who is done with foster care/group homes because when they’re not abusive, they’re negligent? Generates reports, doesn’t generate resolutions.
The teenager who is done with foster care/group homes because when they’re not abusive, they’re negligent? Generates reports, doesn’t generate resolutions.
Put money into housing these kids, and getting them appropriate, trauma informed therapy & education, and going after their parents for support WHILE NOT PUTTING THE KIDS BACK IN ABUSE?
Teen trafficking disappears.
Teen trafficking disappears.
Open the borders. Grant asylum and work permits.
Close down the chicken processors and the field crop farmers and the dairies who keep workers in perpetual debt.
Close down the landscaping companies and the restaurants who don’t pay minimum wage.
Close the sweatshops.
Close down the chicken processors and the field crop farmers and the dairies who keep workers in perpetual debt.
Close down the landscaping companies and the restaurants who don’t pay minimum wage.
Close the sweatshops.
No marriages for anyone under 18.
Parental consent cannot make that contract on their child’s behalf.
Adulthood and voluntary, or not all.
That’s the real trafficking.
Focus there.
Parental consent cannot make that contract on their child’s behalf.
Adulthood and voluntary, or not all.
That’s the real trafficking.
Focus there.
This person lies.
20 years of trauma research. Direct. In the trenches.
There is no data supporting anything she says.
Children are *abused* (Most to least common) at home, in church, in scouting, in care — this isn’t *trafficking*.
Trusted people are perpetrators.
Caregivers.
20 years of trauma research. Direct. In the trenches.
There is no data supporting anything she says.
Children are *abused* (Most to least common) at home, in church, in scouting, in care — this isn’t *trafficking*.
Trusted people are perpetrators.
Caregivers.
Also: she’s not a clinician in any direct field. (Taken from her bio. On Twitter.)
Here’s her business.
Aesthetic dermatology.
Not a shrink, either Dr of Psychology or Psychiatrist.
Not a truamatologist.
Not ER.
Not pedes.
Not GYN.
Not a hospitalist.
Not a social worker.
Here’s her business.
Aesthetic dermatology.
Not a shrink, either Dr of Psychology or Psychiatrist.
Not a truamatologist.
Not ER.
Not pedes.
Not GYN.
Not a hospitalist.
Not a social worker.
This dovetails with the thread from Saturday: Q displaces REAL anxiety with fantasies so that people don’t have to address their own culpability in the abuse of children.
If you believe mafias exploit children in care, you don’t have to advocate for money to keep families intact.
If you believe mafias exploit children in care, you don’t have to advocate for money to keep families intact.
(I blocked her. I strongly suggest we all do.)
If it’s a mafia causing all of the harm to children, you don’t have to look into your own families, or into your own church, or political party. You can make The Other a big bad (brown) boogeyman from another culture.
If it’s a mafia causing all of the harm to children, you don’t have to look into your own families, or into your own church, or political party. You can make The Other a big bad (brown) boogeyman from another culture.
If it’s a cabal of all-powerful criminals with all the power and all the money? What could someone *do*?
This is a LARP. Live Action Role Playing. It’s a giant game of pretend to allow people who CANNOT bear to think about what’s happening nearby to push it far away. https://twitter.com/czedwards/status/1304878043379400711
This is a LARP. Live Action Role Playing. It’s a giant game of pretend to allow people who CANNOT bear to think about what’s happening nearby to push it far away. https://twitter.com/czedwards/status/1304878043379400711
I have homework for you all: Visit this antique website : https://www.religioustolerance.org/conflict.htm
It’s been online since the early 90s. (I’m pretty sure it was my first bookmark when I bought dialup with cash by walking to the ISP & had Netscape running on my 486.)
It’s been online since the early 90s. (I’m pretty sure it was my first bookmark when I bought dialup with cash by walking to the ISP & had Netscape running on my 486.)
Click around, read up, realize this is an ur-text of the internet.
And the stuff they were writing about in 1995 is still relevant.
The same lies being promoted by conspiracy theorists.
The same cultural-Christian urban legends.
Just turned into a bio-meme-weapon.
And the stuff they were writing about in 1995 is still relevant.
The same lies being promoted by conspiracy theorists.
The same cultural-Christian urban legends.
Just turned into a bio-meme-weapon.
PS: if a kid is running away regularly, this isn’t the kid. This is something in the home. The adults are making that space unsafe & impossible.
The kid is acting out BECAUSE the responsible adults have failed in their job.
Most common fails: abuse, neglect, authoritarianism.
The kid is acting out BECAUSE the responsible adults have failed in their job.
Most common fails: abuse, neglect, authoritarianism.
Sorry, I know parents of “difficult” children want to make it the child’s fault. It’s a form of displacing guilt. It is TRULY difficult to have to do retrospective psych work & incredibly difficult to give up on the sunk-cost of increasing punishment.
And yet, it must be done.
And yet, it must be done.
Adolescent substance abuse is almost always a means of self-medication. The child is trying to avoid/treat pain, manage mental illness, mask abuse, or just increase their tolerance for living with neglect.
DARE was wrong on many things, but especially this. It’s no more peer pressure than it is when a friend mentions that an SSRI helped their depression, or HRT made menopause bearable.
And one last PPS:
The government lied. No, there was not a giant child sex trafficking ring broken in Georgia.
The term you’re looking for is *propaganda*. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/government-did-not-break-up-child-sex-trafficking-ring-georgia_n_5f52b7a1c5b6946f3eb1c5d9
The government lied. No, there was not a giant child sex trafficking ring broken in Georgia.
The term you’re looking for is *propaganda*. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/government-did-not-break-up-child-sex-trafficking-ring-georgia_n_5f52b7a1c5b6946f3eb1c5d9
This thread goes along with this one.
Order doesn’t particularly matter that much. https://twitter.com/czedwards/status/1305672344506163200
Order doesn’t particularly matter that much. https://twitter.com/czedwards/status/1305672344506163200
