In case anyone didn't read the article here's another absolutely bonkers quote from a guy whose wife is basically a qanon believer and partially responsible for Jan 6.
Dear Clarence, Republicans hated Roe so much and “couldn’t live with it” so they spent 50 years inventing “textualism” to justify stripping rights for people. And created the Federalist Society to ensure it would eventually happen. Suck my dick, you insurrectionists piece of shit sincerely, Facts
Don’t these Republicans know that the more babies born, the more children that end up sex-trafficked in Wayfair filing cabinets?
I don’t know who is supposed to be creating supply/demand curves for babies but I don’t think the Supreme Court is who I would pick
More than 23,000 children will age out of the US foster care system every year. After reaching the age of 18, 20% of the children who were in foster care will become instantly homeless. Only 1 out of every 2 foster kids who age out of the system will have some form of gainful employment by the age of 24. There is less than a 3% chance for children who have aged out of foster care to earn a college degree at any point in their life. 7 out of 10 girls who age out of the foster care system will become pregnant before the age of 21. The percentage of children who age out of the foster care system and still suffer from the direct effects of PTSD: 25%. Tens of thousands of children in the foster care system were taken away from their parents after extreme abuse. 8% of the total child population of the United States is represented by reports of abuse that are given to authorities in the United States annually. In 2015, more than 20,000 young people — whom states failed to reunite with their families or place in permanent homes.
In the U.S. 397,122 children are living without permanent families in the foster care system. The number of these foster kids who are eligible for adoption, on average, every year: 101,666. 32% of the children who are eligible for adoption from foster care must wait at least 3 years before they will be adopted. There are 17,900,000 orphans who have lost both parents and are living in orphanages or on the streets around the world today. U.S. families adopted more than 7,000 children in 2012, yet over 100k children await adoption from the American foster care system every year. Nearly 60% of young men who age out of the foster care system and are legally emancipated have been convicted of a crime. About 1 in 4 kids who age out of the system will not graduate from high school or be able to pass their GED. Despite all of the challenges, 70% of foster kids regularly say that they would like to attend college one day. 5.1% of children who have been the victim of substantiated child abuse will become the victim of abuse again within 6 months.
Despite the promises of the foster care system, as of 2012, more than 58,000 children in the U.S. foster care system were placed in institutions or group homes. 75% of women and 33% of men receive government benefits to meet basic needs after they age out of the system. 1 out of every 2 kids who age out of the system will develop a substance dependence. States spent a mere 1.2-1.3% of available federal funds on parent recruitment and training services even though 22% of children in foster care had adoption as their goal. Adopted children make-up roughly 2% of the total child population under the age of 18. Children who are adopted make up over 10% of the total referrals for child therapy. 55% of these children who wind up being legally emancipated by the foster care system have had 3 or more placements over their childhood. 33% of children had changed elementary schools 5 or more times, causing them to fall behind academically and lose friends that they had made in the process. There is a direct correlation to the age of a child who enters foster care and their likelihood of being successfully discharged to a permanent home instead of being legally emancipated.
In 2012, there were approximately 679,000 instances of confirmed child maltreatment from the over 3 million reports generated. The overall national child victim rate was 9.2 child victims per 1,000 children in the US population. State child victim rates vary dramatically in the United States, ranging from 1.2 child victims per 1,000 children to 19.6 child victims per 1,000 children. African-American children had the highest rates of victimization at 14.2 victims per 1,000 children in that racial group’s overall child population. Asian children had the lowest rates, with 1.7 victims per 1,000. Between 2002 and 2012, the number of children in care on the last day of the fiscal year decreased by 24.2%, or by over 130,000 children. The annual rate of children who are discharged out of the foster system without a successful placement: 13%. Children with a diagnosed disability of any kind, including a learning disability, are twice as likely to age out of the foster care system. Kids who enter the foster care system after the age of 12 have a 2 in 5 chance of being legally emancipated at the age of 18 from the system. More than 20% of the children who are currently in foster care are aged 3 or younger. African-American children make up 20% of the foster care population, which is about double the amount of maltreatment reports that are generated for their racial demographic annually. More than 40% of the children who reach the age of 18 while in foster care were in the system for more than 3 years.
In 2012, only 4.5% of children who were adopted out of foster care were placed in the system for fewer than 12 months. The percentage of children adopted in less than 12 months out of foster care in 2009: 3.6%. More than 85% of children in foster care have had a minimum of two different placement settings within the first 12 months of being placed in the system. 11% of children who are placed into a permanent setting outside of foster care will re-enter the system within 12 months. Only 32.6% of adoptions from foster care occur within the first 2 years of a child being placed into the system. Less than 70% of the cases of founded child maltreatment had a response time that was less than 48 hours for an intervention. 30.4% of incidents were responded to by caseworkers in 24 hours or less. 73% of the cases of child maltreatment are due to neglect. Kids between the ages of 0-7 make up more than half of all child maltreatment reports that are generated in the United States every year. 48.9% of the reports are generated from families that are Caucasian. More than 6% of children who are placed into foster care have been sexually abused by a parent or family member.
Used to listen to this pod, but unfortunately got overran by Peter Thiel and Tucker Carlson’s best bud David Sacks
Hmmm….it’s usually 3 Dems (Chamath, Jcal, Frienerg) vs Sacks (R). They lampoon him pretty regularly. But fair enough - FWIW he’s not talking at all, Chamath getting them to explain how the judges misled Congress in their testimony right now
I never hear any pushback from them when he spouts off ridiculous shit. And Sacks whines incessantly so I gave up. It started out really good with fun tech and market info and has slowly morphed into full on right wing discourse for 2 hours. Anyways I won’t stuff up this thread with podcast nonsense
I love that no commentary on this issue discusses that “pro life” people have sex before they’re ready to have a kid and if there’s a pregnancy they absolutely would get/push for their partner to get an abortion. We all know it happens but it’s never discussed.