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🗣️ Talking honestly about adoption and the family policing system.
🫂 For adoptees, foster care survivors, and parents harmed by it.
✊🏾 Abolition means families get support, not separation.

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New season of Adoptees Crossing Lines starts January 9, 2026.

We’re naming how family policing shows up in media, what films taught people to believe, and what survivors know is true.

Hosted by adoptees Zaira + J Way (@itsjway.bsky.social).

Share so it finds who needs it.

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Light blue graphic with bold black text reading: “New season. New lens.” Below, smaller text says: “Family policing in the media, through the eyes of survivors.” White arrow accents. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines. Light blue graphic with bold text: “What we see on screen becomes the story people believe.” Below, smaller text explains the season analyzes how film and TV shape ideas of “safety.” White arrow accents. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines. Light blue graphic with bold text: “Because when stories erase us, they shape a world that treats us like we don’t exist.” Below, smaller text explains connecting films to real lived experiences of survivors. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines. Light blue graphic with bold text: “Two adoptees, both survivors of the family policing system.” Below: “Zaira & J Way. Co-hosting, and J edits the show.” Text notes season premiere January 9, 2026, with “Link in bio.” Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines.
January 2, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Wishing a peaceful, safe, and healthy New Year to everyone! 🎊

I took some time to reflect on 2025.

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January 1, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Kids are sent to “new” relatives because the state cut those ties to begin with.

Asking kids to adapt to choices made about them, not with them.

Why not support before removal?

(Source: Seattle Times)

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Gradient blue and white graphic with bold black text reading “Stability for who?” Text references a Seattle Times op-ed about children being harmed when moved from long-term foster homes to relatives, noting the deeper harm occurred when the state removed them from their family in the first place. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines. Source: Seattle Times, 2025. Gradient blue and white graphic stating “Stability isn’t the priority.” Text explains the author argues Washington misapplies “family first” laws by moving children from foster homes to relatives they’ve never met, causing trauma and instability. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines. Source: Seattle Times, 2025. Gradient blue and white graphic stating “Family isn’t whoever the state finds next.” Text explains it was not stable when the state removed children from their family, nor safe when bonding was interrupted at birth, and that calling foster placement changes a “disruption” protects the system, not children. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines. Source: Seattle Times, 2025. Gradient blue and white graphic stating “Disruption is state-sanctioned harm.” Text explains family separation creates trauma later used to justify keeping children in foster care, and that bonding becomes evidence against reunification. The harm is identified as the original removal. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines. Source: Seattle Times, 2025.
December 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Foster parents in Massachusetts want to unionize.

Bill H229 exposes the truth: Money exists. It’s just not given to families before separation.

Why fund separation when you could fund support?

(Source: OnLabor, 2025)

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Blue graphic with bold white text stating that foster parents are trying to unionize, not because the system protects children, but because even those recruited into family separation cannot afford to participate. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines. Source: OnLabor, 2025. Blue graphic titled “The Situation.” Text explains Bill H229 would allow foster parents to bargain for higher pay, respite care, clearer expectations, and protection from retaliation by DCF, while many still cannot afford basic needs. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines. Source: OnLabor, 2025. Blue graphic titled “What That Reveals.” Text states the state removes children for poverty, places them with adults who also cannot afford care, and provides money only after family separation. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines. Source: OnLabor, 2025. Blue graphic titled “Survivor Lens.” Text states this model funds family separation instead of preservation and questions why separation is funded instead of support. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines. Source: OnLabor, 2025.
December 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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NYC has launched a guaranteed income program for unhoused young adults, funded through the city budget.

It reflects a growing shift toward material support over punishment, and recognition that cash can be a direct path to stability.

Source: New York City Council

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Light blue graphic with bold white text: “New York City is funding guaranteed income for unhoused youth.” Subtext explains NYC launched a guaranteed income program for young people experiencing homelessness, using public dollars for stability without surveillance. Source: NYC Council. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines. Light blue graphic. Text explains NYC allocated $1.5M to support 60 people ages 18–24 in Covenant House programs. Participants receive $1,200 per month for 9 months plus a one-time $5,000 payment and optional supportive services. Source: NYC Council. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines. Light blue graphic. Text reads: “The goal is stability, not punishment or hoops.” Program provides flexible cash for housing, food, and transportation on participants’ own terms, not based on compliance. Source: NYC Council. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines. Light blue graphic. Text explains the program reflects that cash works and people deserve dignity and a path out of homelessness. Builds on NYC’s earlier guaranteed income program for expectant parents. Source: NYC Council. Handle on slide: @adopteescrossinglines.
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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In Ithaca, NY residents are creating a free, neighborhood based childcare space grounded in mutual aid.

This isn’t charity — it’s a community built alternative made necessary by policy choices in the U.S.

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White background with bold black text reading: “Childcare as mutual aid, not a luxury.” Smaller text explains that in Ithaca, residents are opening a free, neighborhood-based childcare space built by and for families who need support, not paperwork or profit. Source: Ithaca Times. Handle @adopteescrossinglines at top. White background with bold black text stating: “The West Village Community Drop In will offer free, play-based childcare for children ages 18 months to five years.” Smaller text explains it is located inside an apartment complex, runs a few mornings a week, and removes barriers like cost, transportation, and long waitlists. Source: Ithaca Times. Handle at top. White background with bold black text reading: “Childcare in New York can cost $15,000–$20,000 a year per child. There aren’t enough slots. Many families are priced out entirely.” Smaller text explains this space offers a community-based alternative centered on access, proximity, and collective care rather than cost or eligibility. Source: Ithaca Times. Handle at top. White background with bold black text stating: “This model treats childcare as community care, not an individual burden.” Smaller text explains that parents support one another, children build relationships close to home, and communities are creating care where public investment is lacking. Source: Ithaca Times. Handle at top.
December 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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December 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Decades of research show that many child removals are driven by housing insecurity, not safety.

When systems treat fixable material conditions as neglect, children are exposed to far greater risk — often with devastating outcomes.

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White background fading into light blue. Text reads: “The Problem Isn’t Parenting. It’s Housing.” Body text states that decades of research show at least 30% of children in foster care could be home now if their families had adequate housing. Footer cites Nevada Current. Handle @adopteescrossinglines at top. White-to-light-blue background. Text reads: “Housing insecurity is treated as a character flaw instead of a solvable issue.” Body text explains that social workers often frame housing conditions as personal failure, but most unhoused parents are not in mental health crisis and are not using substances. Source: Nevada Current. Handle @adopteescrossinglines at top. White-to-light-blue background. Text reads: “Removing a child because a home lacks basics, then placing them in danger, is not protection.” Body text states research shows children generally do better at home than in foster care, that fostered children are over four times more likely to die by age 20, often by suicide, and that abuse occurs in many foster and group homes. Source: Nevada Current. Handle at top. White-to-light-blue background. Text reads: “Housing isn’t a reward. It’s a basic human right.” Body text explains that when families receive housing first, child removals drop sharply, and one study found housing vouchers cut foster care placements in half. It ends by stating people cannot stabilize mental health, parenting, or recovery while fighting to survive. Source: Nevada Current. Handle at top.
December 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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A new civil rights complaint in Minnesota raises urgent questions about how foster care treats transgender youth — and what accountability actually looks like when harm occurs.

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White background with @adopteescrossinglines at the top and a light blue arrow icon on the right. Large text reads: “A transgender girl was harmed in foster care. The state failed to protect her.” Smaller text explains that a civil rights complaint was filed in Minnesota on behalf of a transgender girl who experienced abuse and discrimination in a state-licensed foster care group home. Source at the bottom: Gender Justice. White background with @adopteescrossinglines at the top and a light blue arrow icon. Large text reads: “Minnesota law guarantees safety and protection from discrimination. That didn’t happen here.” Body text explains that after entering foster care at age 12, S.R. was placed in a facility that refused to affirm her gender identity, housed her with boys, and ignored requests for safer placement despite warnings from her family. Source at bottom: Gender Justice. White background with @adopteescrossinglines at the top and a light blue arrow icon. Large text reads: “Advocates say this case reflects a broader failure to enforce existing laws and ensure affirming care.” Text notes that queer youth are overrepresented in foster care and face higher violence, and that in Minnesota about 30% of youth in foster care identify as queer. Source at bottom: Gender Justice. White background with @adopteescrossinglines at the top. Large text reads: “Safety, dignity, and care are not optional.” Body text says Gender Justice is calling on the state and county to revise policies, comply with civil rights law, and ensure transgender youth are placed in safe, affirming environments. Source at bottom: Gender Justice.
December 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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A grandmother in Maryland is fighting for custody of her infant grandson after his mother’s death — despite the state’s stated commitment to kinship care.

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December 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering a bill that would stop parental incarceration from being used as the sole reason to terminate parental rights.

When punishment extends to children, the harm doesn’t end at sentencing.

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Light blue background with @adopteescrossinglines at the top. Large text reads: “A New Push to Protect Children of Incarcerated Parents in Pennsylvania.” Smaller text explains that a bill from Rep. Rick Krajewski would stop courts from terminating parental rights solely because a parent is incarcerated, a practice that has separated thousands of families. Source at bottom: WTAJ via Yahoo News. Light blue background with @adopteescrossinglines at the top. Text shares stats: nearly two million children in the U.S. have an incarcerated parent; over 60% of incarcerated women are mothers; Black children are 7.5 times more likely than white children to have an incarcerated parent. Final line: “Incarceration already disrupts families. Termination makes the harm permanent.” Source at bottom. Light blue background with @adopteescrossinglines at the top. Text explains Krajewski’s description of the fear and uncertainty children face when a parent is incarcerated: not knowing when they’ll reunite, losing emotional connection, and facing financial instability. It states that terminating parental rights due to incarceration deepens trauma. Source at bottom. Light blue background with @adopteescrossinglines at the top. Text summarizes the bill: parental incarceration cannot be the sole reason for terminating rights; courts must consider factors outside a parent’s control, like medical needs and housing; courts must consider efforts to meet a service plan while incarcerated. Final line: “Children deserve connection, not punishment by association.” Source at bottom.
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Monroe County’s latest CPS data shows a system draining resources from families already under pressure.

When most cases find no harm, the harm of surveillance itself becomes impossible to ignore.

Here’s what the new report reveals, and what community leaders are calling for next.

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White background with a soft blue gradient. Header: @adopteescrossinglines. Large text reads: “76% of CPS Cases Were Unfounded. The Harm Still Added Up.” Body text explains that new data from Monroe County, NY shows 76% of CPS investigations found no abuse or neglect, yet families still faced weeks of fear and disruption. Small source line cites 13WHAM News, HOPE585, and The Children’s Agenda. White background with a light blue gradient. Header: @adopteescrossinglines. Title: “The Real Cost.” Text explains that the county spent $13.76 million on unfounded investigations and families lost an estimated $2.2 million in wages due to missed work, travel, and appointments. It states that surveillance drains resources from people who need support. Small star icon on the right. Source line at the bottom. White background with a blue gradient at the bottom. Header: @adopteescrossinglines. Title: “Harm, Not Help.” Text lists impacts: children removed from classrooms, parents afraid to ask for support, and communities seeing schools and hospitals as pathways to investigation instead of care. It ends by saying CPS doesn’t provide food, housing, or stability—only investigation. Star icon on the right. Source line at the bottom. White background with a blue gradient. Header: @adopteescrossinglines. Title: “What Families Actually Need.” Text explains that community leaders are calling for expanded access to support, reinvestment in housing, childcare, and food assistance, and annual transparent reporting. Small star icon on the right. Source line at the bottom.
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Cash assistance doesn’t create “dependency.” It creates stability.

Guaranteed income programs across the country show the same thing again and again:

Steady cash lowers stress, improves health, and makes it possible for people to work, plan, and breathe without punishment.

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Light blue background. Header reads “@adopteescrossinglines.” A small black circular button with an arrow sits in the upper right. Large bold text says: “Cash assistance doesn’t ‘enable dependency.’ It builds stability.” Body text explains that guaranteed income programs show consistent results: when people have predictable cash, their lives become calmer, healthier, and more stable. It notes that in the Stockton SEED study, giving people $500 a month reduced income volatility and made it easier to plan and recover. Bottom text says: “Stability isn’t a luxury. It’s what makes everything else possible.” Footer cites SEED (2022) and Alaska Permanent Fund analyses. Light blue background with “@adopteescrossinglines” at the top and a small arrow button on the right. Heading reads: “Cash improves health — not hypothetically, but measurably.” Body text explains that people receiving guaranteed income reported lower anxiety and depression, better emotional health and energy, and less crisis-based coping. Includes a quote from a SEED participant: “I had panic attacks and anxiety… I haven’t touched my pills in a while.” Text ends with: “Cash isn’t a ‘handout.’ It’s mental healthcare before the crisis hits.” Footer cites SEED (2022). Light blue background. Top shows “@adopteescrossinglines” and the arrow button. Heading reads: “Cash increases employment — not the opposite.” Body text explains that guaranteed income recipients were more likely to secure full-time work because cash removed barriers such as transportation, childcare gaps, and the fear of taking risks. Includes a quote: “The only reason I got the internship was because I could afford to take the risk.” Text explains that when people aren’t in survival mode, they make better decisions and pursue long-term goals. Ends with: “Cash expands choices. Poverty restricts them.” Footer cites SEED (2022) and Alaska Permanent Fund research. Light blue background with the same header and arrow button. Heading reads: “Guaranteed income doesn’t replace hard work. It replaces forced vulnerability.” Body text explains that cash assistance gives people room to breathe, plan, and parent without punishment. It states that stronger communities and better outcomes for children require stability, not more control. Ends with: “Cash works. Stability works. People thrive when their basic needs are met.” Footer cites SEED (2022), Jones & Marinescu on Alaska PFD, and other GI studies.
December 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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HOW does the industry keep getting worse. 😡
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Nevada is adopting “Family-Match,” an algorithm that claims to improve adoption outcomes.

Algorithms don’t repair separation.
They streamline it.

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Light blue background graphic. Text reads: “Source: Pahrump Valley Times (2025). Nevada is adopting ‘Family-Match,’ a tech tool that claims to improve adoption outcomes. Agencies enter data. Families enter preferences. An algorithm decides compatibility. But behind the sleek design is the same old truth: Turning children into data points doesn’t address the harm that separated them.” A black “Swipe Right” button sits near the bottom. @adopteescrossinglines appears at the bottom right. Light blue slide with circular abstract shapes. Text reads: “Source: Pahrump Valley Times (2025). Family-Match presents itself as efficiency. But efficiency doesn’t change why children end up in these systems in the first place. Families lose their children because they lacked support, resources, stability, or protection — not because technology failed to match them ‘better.’ An algorithm cannot change the structural conditions that made a child adoptable. It can only sort the fallout.” @adopteescrossinglines is at the bottom. Light blue slide. Text reads: “Source: Pahrump Valley Times (2025). The tool promises fewer ‘disruptions,’ more ‘stable placements,’ and ‘improved matches.’ But no algorithm can repair what was broken upstream. No algorithm can repair the grief of separation. No algorithm can replace a child’s first family. No algorithm can guarantee safety. No algorithm can prevent instability created by the system itself. These are systemic harms — not technical glitches.” @adopteescrossinglines at the bottom. Light blue slide. Text reads: “Source: Pahrump Valley Times (2025). Tech solutions don’t solve family separation. They streamline it. We need to fund families, not algorithms. We need support, not searchable databases. We need prevention, not better marketing. Adoptee justice isn’t found in a matching system. It’s found in keeping families together.” @adopteescrossinglines is at the bottom.
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Nevada is adopting “Family-Match,” an algorithm that claims to improve adoption outcomes.

Algorithms don’t repair separation.
They streamline it.

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Light blue background graphic. Text reads: “Source: Pahrump Valley Times (2025). Nevada is adopting ‘Family-Match,’ a tech tool that claims to improve adoption outcomes. Agencies enter data. Families enter preferences. An algorithm decides compatibility. But behind the sleek design is the same old truth: Turning children into data points doesn’t address the harm that separated them.” A black “Swipe Right” button sits near the bottom. @adopteescrossinglines appears at the bottom right. Light blue slide with circular abstract shapes. Text reads: “Source: Pahrump Valley Times (2025). Family-Match presents itself as efficiency. But efficiency doesn’t change why children end up in these systems in the first place. Families lose their children because they lacked support, resources, stability, or protection — not because technology failed to match them ‘better.’ An algorithm cannot change the structural conditions that made a child adoptable. It can only sort the fallout.” @adopteescrossinglines is at the bottom. Light blue slide. Text reads: “Source: Pahrump Valley Times (2025). The tool promises fewer ‘disruptions,’ more ‘stable placements,’ and ‘improved matches.’ But no algorithm can repair what was broken upstream. No algorithm can repair the grief of separation. No algorithm can replace a child’s first family. No algorithm can guarantee safety. No algorithm can prevent instability created by the system itself. These are systemic harms — not technical glitches.” @adopteescrossinglines at the bottom. Light blue slide. Text reads: “Source: Pahrump Valley Times (2025). Tech solutions don’t solve family separation. They streamline it. We need to fund families, not algorithms. We need support, not searchable databases. We need prevention, not better marketing. Adoptee justice isn’t found in a matching system. It’s found in keeping families together.” @adopteescrossinglines is at the bottom.
December 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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A new national study confirms what adoptees have said for decades: medical care isn’t neutral for us.

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Light blue background graphic. Header reads “@adopteescrossinglines.” A small arrow icon sits in the top right. Bold title: “Adoptees have been naming harm in health care long before anyone studied it.” Body text explains that a 2025 study shows clinicians aren’t trained to care for adopted adults, and that dismissal and gaps in knowledge show up in appointments, charts, and interactions. Footer text cites “Source: Small et al., 2025 (Annals of Family Medicine).” Light blue background graphic. Header “@adopteescrossinglines” with a small arrow icon on the right. Bold title: “The study captured what many adoptees experience every day.” Body text describes clinicians making stereotypical comments, dismissing concerns, repeatedly asking for family medical history adoptees don’t have, and listing “adopted person” like a diagnosis. Footer text cites “Source: Small et al., 2025 (Annals of Family Medicine).” Light blue background graphic. Header “@adopteescrossinglines” with an arrow icon on the right. Bold title: “Those experiences have consequences.” Body text explains that adoptees facing adoption-related discrimination were more than seven times more likely to delay care or switch providers, not from avoiding help but from being dismissed or misunderstood. Footer text cites “Source: Small et al., 2025 (Annals of Family Medicine).” Light blue background graphic. Header “@adopteescrossinglines” with an arrow icon on the right. Bold title: “Adoptees deserve care that sees the whole picture.” Body text states that adoptees deserve clinicians who understand missing family history isn’t a moral failing, and deserve screening plans, forms, and spaces that reflect their actual families and lived experiences. Footer text cites “Source: Small et al., 2025 (Annals of Family Medicine).”
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Check out my latest posts on Substack.

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Adoptees Crossing Lines | Zaira | Substack
Adoptee led media telling the truth about adoption, family policing, and belonging, a companion to the Adoptees Crossing Lines podcast. Click to read Adoptees Crossing Lines, by Zaira, a Substack publ...
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December 1, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Utah is advancing legislation to curb what many call adoption tourism — a pattern where agencies recruit vulnerable women from out of state to relinquish their babies in Utah.

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Light blue background. Centered text reads: “Utah is trying to limit ‘adoption tourism.’ But the real story isn’t reform, it’s exposure. For years, agencies have recruited vulnerable women from other states, flown them to Utah, and pressured them into relinquishing their children. This isn’t ‘helping families.’ It’s the business model.” At the top is the handle @adopteescrossinglines. At the bottom is a small citation box that says “Fox 13 News Utah (2025).” Light blue background. Centered text reads: “Investigations revealed agencies transporting pregnant women to Utah, separating them from support systems, and using vague ‘pregnancy expense’ payments as leverage. Some mothers reported they didn’t understand their rights or felt coerced into signing away their children. This is not an accident. It’s how adoption profits are protected.” The handle @adopteescrossinglines appears at the top. A small citation box at the bottom says “Fox 13 News Utah (2025).” Light blue background. Centered text reads: “Utah isn’t ‘improving’ adoption. It’s trying to control the fallout of an industry built on coercion. These proposed rules—nonprofit licensing, transport limits, payment caps, and a 72-hour revocation period—exist because the abuse became impossible to deny. Not because the system is becoming safer. You can’t regulate exploitation into liberation.” The handle @adopteescrossinglines is shown at the top. A small citation box at the bottom reads “Fox 13 News Utah (2025).” Light blue background. Centered text reads: “Reforms don’t address the core issue: children are made available for adoption through the manufactured vulnerability of their mothers. Until we confront the systems that exploit poverty, isolation, and crisis, adoption tourism won’t disappear. It will just rebrand. Adoptee justice means naming the harm at the root, not polishing the pipeline.” The handle @adopteescrossinglines appears at the top. A small citation box at the bottom says “Fox 13 News Utah (2025).”
December 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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NAAM is ending, but adoptees’ truths don’t fit into a once a year campaign.

Awareness shouldn’t end on November 30th. Tell the full story — all year.

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Light blue background with white starburst in the top right corner. Header reads “National Adoption Awareness Month.” Text explains that NAAM can feel like a celebration of adoptee silence. It describes expectations to be grateful for separation, to smile while grief is used as marketing, and states adoptees have always told a different story: one of loss, survival, and truth-telling despite a system built on silence. Bottom includes “@adopteescrossinglines” and a right-facing arrow icon. Light blue background with a white starburst on the left. Large “01.” at the top. Text states adoptees deserve honesty about their beginnings, not fairy-tale narratives. Calls for language that names loss and for space to tell truths without labels like ungrateful or difficult. Ends by saying adoptee narratives aren’t the problem; the system that created their silence is. Bottom includes “@adopteescrossinglines” and a right-facing arrow icon. Light blue background with a white sparkle icon on the right. Large “02.” at the top. Text explains that the public’s preferred adoption narrative — rescue, destiny, gratitude — comes at adoptees’ expense. It erases first families, reshapes identities, and treats separation as a gift. Notes that when NAAM uplifts adoption without context, it reinforces harmful myths that silence adoptees and maintain oppressive systems. Bottom includes “@adopteescrossinglines” and a right-facing arrow icon. Light blue background with a white starburst on the right. Large “03.” at the top. Text states: If NAAM is about awareness, families deserve support, not surveillance. Adoptees deserve truth, and communities deserve care instead of carceral solutions. Abolition means building a world where no child is taken for being poor and where love isn’t weaponized for state power. Ends with: “Listen to adoptees. Fund first families. Tell the full story — all year, not just in November.” Bottom includes “@adopteescrossinglines” and a right-facing arrow icon.
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Poverty isn’t neglect.

Most kids in foster care aren’t there because of abuse, they’re there because their parents couldn’t afford food, housing, or childcare.

The solution isn’t foster care. It’s ending poverty.

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Slide 1: Light blue background with a white star shape in the top right corner. Text reads: “National Adoption Awareness Month. Most children in foster care aren’t there because of abuse. They’re there because their parents are poor. When families can’t afford food, housing, or childcare, the state calls it ‘neglect.’ Then uses that label to justify separation, instead of support.” Slide 2: Text reads: “01. Across the U.S., 73% of child welfare cases cite neglect, not abuse. And ‘neglect’ often just means poverty: empty refrigerators, unpaid light bills, no safe housing. Meanwhile, programs like SNAP and childcare assistance are cut, pushing more families into crisis. The same government that fails to feed us funds the system that takes our kids.” Slide 3: Text reads: “02. Being poor isn’t a parenting failure. It’s the predictable outcome of capitalism, racism, and policy choices that punish the most marginalized. When safety nets are ripped away, family policing fills the gap — not with help, but with handcuffs. Poverty becomes a crime, and survival becomes evidence.” Slide 4: Text reads: “03. If we funded care instead of control, families could stay together. Food, housing, and childcare aren’t luxuries, they’re family preservation. The real solution to ‘neglect’ isn’t foster care. It’s ending poverty.”
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Week 2 is up on Substack.

This one is about what the podcast has taught me, about the system, about grief, and about telling the truth even when people don’t want to hear it.
Read it here: adopteescrossinglines.substack.com

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November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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This National Adoption Month, check out our partners who are shifting dominant adoption narratives:

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November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Radical, abolitionist family-building:

✔️ protects family bonds.

✔️ honors chosen family.

✔️ builds kinship free from coercion & state violence.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Radical, abolitionist family-building rejects the commodification, separation, and displacement of children from their families & communities.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Rather than provide a robust social safety net to meet the needs of marginalized families, the state facilitates the buying and selling of their children through adoption.

This is human trafficking, plain and simple.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM