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I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

alwayswasalwayswillbeourland

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dreadwedge

As a transsexual woman 👩 who has had multiple experiences ‼️ I have found 🔎 that the biggest block of cheese 🧀 is usually the one ☝️ that has the largest size 📈

dreadwedge

mature content

depsidase

theaceofwords

It's called the Global Justice Report, it is here. This is an actionable plan which can be sent to legislators and demanded of political parties. We could save the world within our lifetimes.

It has always been possible. It is still possible.

prokopetz

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

prokopetz

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

buggyhuman

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have

woodsfae

If you were taught to read with the three cueing method, and now struggle to read fluently, you can still learn to read properly!

-> Phonics For Adults <-

If you're a teenager, you can still use this resource.

ghost0fthejungle

Back again with Raph Vs British people.

Leo is a botanist/nature freak your honour, you can wrestle this handcanon from my cold dead hands.

(Apologises if the pictures are low quality, the app I use to make these memes was really struggling to make them at all.)

loredwy

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

would-you-punt-them

now all the things you guys have told me about american high schools are starting to make sense

jeaninelatragedia

holy shit.

frustratedasatruar

You're not really supposed to say it this way, because its considered crass, but here in the US children are culturally and legally considered essentially the property of their parents.

Note that its considered more crass to point this out than it is to treat children as property in the first place.

steakplissken

It's so Christian fundamentalists can homeschool their children without fear of oversight I stg

the-sol-eater-deactivated202604

do any of you remember that gumball episode where darwin becomes mega paranoid after watching a health and safety video so to quell his anxiety he goes out of his way to make everything kid friendly and inoffensive by propositioning it as being for the children and then he becomes a fascist at the end

william-snekspeare

This is so real

pixellangel

HOLD ON I HAVE A GIF FOR THIS

pixellangel

yes ive been waiting for my moment

jadejemdoesstuff

I had an interesting night last night

under-the-arch

I’m so glad I have tumblr gold so I can view this post

irishironclad

Tumblr gold users rise up

babanabread

you can only reblog if you have tumblr gold. dont even try if you dont.

sensiblereblogifposts

Reblog if you have Tumblr gold

no-one-offical

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da-police-offical

So glad I have Tumblr Gold

jnkcd

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junestrings

a lot of people dont care about insect biomass collapse bc when they hear we are losing 2.5% of the insect biomass per year they just imagine the cockroach and housefly population decreasing by that much. they dont realize those are among the only ones that will remain unbothered

junestrings

you can make a little oasis right where you are, and it matters

headspace-hotel

every year of restoring native plants I see a great increase in the insect populations, and loads of new insects i never saw before (all of them harmless--the insects that are harmful or parasitic on humans are the main ones being unaffected by the decrease in insect populations)

(a large part of) the problem is Plant Sameness. we must restore plant diversity

thestoryteller-thedreamer

One of the aspects of the very first season of Ninjago that is so fascinating to me is how it separates the main character from the hero.

Our five main characters (yes, I'm including Nya in here even if she's more or less ignored at the beginning) all have to come to terms with the fact that they aren't the hero. They have to accept their individual identity and group role as the protectors of the hero... who ends up being the initial antagonist of the season, Lloyd Garmadon.

I think that's such an interesting dynamic- realizing that you aren't the person at the center of a grand prophecy and letting go of your dreams in order to be part of something bigger and greater than you alone.

And this continues into Season 2. Yes, Lloyd does get more focus than Season 1 (where he was mostly an off-screen prisoner), but I wouldn't say he is the main character of Season 2. Often, and especially at the beginning, the episodes don't really focus on him- they focus on the other ninja learning to train him properly. The main characters from the first season frequently get the episode's arc, while Lloyd is their goal.

And this continues through the finale of the Season. The entire final battle, Lloyd is fighting to stay with his friends... until they realize that it's their responsibility to push him forward, not stay by his side. The ninja are the ones making the choice to get Lloyd to the top of the tower, and he has to learn from their decisions and accept his destiny, rather than making that decision on his own.

This continues through Season 7. Lloyd does get some character development (such as his leadership arc in Hands of Time) but he's never the one saving the day. That falls to Zane in 3, Kai and Garmadon in 4, Nya in 5, Jay in 6, Cole in DotD, and Nya and Kai in 7. Lloyd fulfilled his destiny (to save his father) and now he's just... part of the team. He doesn't have to save the day anymore. He can be backup support to the others, just like they were backup support to him.