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The Hidden Cost of Survival: How Trauma Becomes a Financial Burden for Care Survivors
Trigger Warning: Mentions of trauma, abuse, and systemic neglect.Written from lived experience. The Price of Healing For children who grow up in state care, the trauma doesn’t end when the placement ends. The system’s failures echo through adulthood — in … Continue reading
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Tagged child abuse, CPTSD, foster care, healing, historic abuse, mental-health, ptsd, social services, therapy, Trauma, UK
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The Inheritance of Files: How the State Turned Guardianship into Surveillance
Trigger Warning: Mentions of state care, child abuse, and surveillance of care-experienced parents.Written from lived experience. A Child of the Court I became a ward of court at eight years old. From that moment, the state claimed legal guardianship over … Continue reading
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Tagged child abuse, England, family, foster care, healing, historic abuse, life, mental-health, parenting, social services, Trauma, UK
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Fostering for Purpose Vs Financial Gain.
Fostering is a good will job, that requires skill, time and a lot of energy. Good foster parents deserve financial support and help when fostering children. Children are expensive, and giving up your life to give someone else a fairer … Continue reading
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Tagged abuse, child abuse, family, foster care, Fostering, healing, life, Lived experience, Mental Health, Money, Neglect, parenting, Trauma, UK
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Yes we do! Sorry for your experience, hopefully by talking about how these experiences impact us, we can create change,…