When social services take a child from their parents,they aren’t just removing one person from one home.They are ripping a thread from an entire tapestry.A living, breathing, tangled web of love, connection, and history. It is not just a child taken.It is their grandmother’s lullabies, their sibling’s late-night whispers, their uncle’s jokes, their cousin’s hugs.It… Continue reading When a Child Is Taken, a Whole Family Breaks
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When Speaking Up Becomes a Weapon
They tell you to speak.To reach out.To be brave and ask for help.They urge you to be honest, to share your struggles, to show them you're trying. But what they don’t say—what they never warn you about—is what happens next. Because the moment you speak, your words stop belonging to you.They become evidence.Twisted.Framed.Used. That cry… Continue reading When Speaking Up Becomes a Weapon
The Ghost of the Girl They Left Behind
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
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
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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