No matter how much I heal,no matter how far I come,the child I once was will always walk beside me—a ghost of what should have been.A shadow of the childhood social services should have saved,but didn’t. They had chances.I know that now, not from memory, but from the black-and-white records I’ve fought to hold in… Continue reading The Ghost of the Girl They Left Behind
Author: TheGirlSpeaks
Collateral Damage
They say family court is about justice.But justice doesn’t feel like this. It doesn’t feel like being silenced while strangers dissect your life behind closed doors.It doesn’t feel like begging to be heard and being met with paperwork and procedure. Family court is about power.Theirs, not yours.It's about profit—paid experts, legal fees, private reports, all… Continue reading Collateral Damage
“Families Dismantled, Not Defended: The Dark Side of Child Protection”
When social services operate on assumptions rather than concrete evidence, they risk dismantling the very families they're meant to protect. Families can be torn apart not due to substantiated facts, but because of speculative concerns, leaving lasting trauma in place of once-present love. The Scope of Family Separation in the UK In England, approximately one… Continue reading “Families Dismantled, Not Defended: The Dark Side of Child Protection”
They Say They Know Best—But They Never Ask What I Need
I want to go home.But they won’t let me. My voice feels too small for them to hear. My words, my wishes, my truth—it all gets brushed aside like it never mattered. Like I don’t matter. They say they know what’s best for me.They make decisions in boardrooms, in courtrooms, behind closed doors—while I’m left… Continue reading They Say They Know Best—But They Never Ask What I Need
This Is My Story—And I’m Ready for the World to Hear It
There comes a moment when silence no longer serves us—when the weight of what we’ve endured demands to be spoken. I stand at the edge of that moment. My story is one shaped by the hands of a broken and corrupt social services system. A system that was supposed to protect, support, and uplift—but instead… Continue reading This Is My Story—And I’m Ready for the World to Hear It
The System Failed Me First
As a child, I suffered in silence. No one came to save me. No one looked closely enough. No one listened when I needed them to. I carried bruises you couldn’t see and wounds that never had the chance to heal. I did what so many children do—I survived the best I could with what… Continue reading The System Failed Me First
Who I am
I am the wrong side of 40, I can count on both hands only the amount of years the system have not been in my life in some way.Watched, judged, condemned before I can take a breath.I have lived experience, I have knowledge, I have spent hundreds of hours reading, researching learning.Understanding their protocols, noting… Continue reading Who I am
The Truth
I hear it all the time—"they don't take a child for no reason." As someone who has lived through the pain of losing their children, I understand why people say this. They cling to that belief, convinced it’s the only explanation, unaware of how much more there is beneath those simple words. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆… Continue reading The Truth
The Girl Speaks – Breaking the Silence
When I came into this world many years ago, I wasn’t born into love.Not into safety, not into warmth.I was born to a woman whose priorities lay elsewhere. By the time I was barely a year old, I was already on the radar of social services, marked down under neglect, poor parenting. A file opened.… Continue reading The Girl Speaks – Breaking the Silence
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