The Family Regulation System Is Fundamentally Violent and Always Has Been

i still get choked up when i think about the level of terror that was imposed on native families during the preiqui days of child removal. Native people couldn't leave their children to play in their yards without worrying that a social worker might show up and kidnap them. People who didn't hide their children quickly enough when social workers appeared were forced to watch as their children were taken. Parents who resisted faced incarceration and further threats that they would never see their children again. The us Government held entire generations of native children hostage, and as recent events have reinforced, it had no compunction about killing.