“Even after a judge required ACS to reunite Ms. Rivers with her baby, ACS continued to subject Ms. Rivers to needless court proceedings and a litany of conditions that interfered with her parenting of TW for months, while the unlawful removal of her baby was ratified by senior ACS leadership,” the complaint reads. “This was not because ACS was trying to protect TW; this was because Ms. Rivers is Black.”
People who work in Child Protection aren’t doing it because they’re power hungry sociopaths. They’re people who do an absolutely horrible job for shit pay because they feel compelled to protect children.
I’m not in NY, but I have a friend who works in Child Protection. The shit her and her friends see is fucked up.
In the case here, the baby was born with measurable levels of THC in their system. It’s not illegal to smoke weed while pregnant, just like it’s not illegal to drink alcohol while pregnant - but both can fuck up a child for life before they’re even born.
The people who work in child protection don’t necessarily need to be power hungry in order to be racist. There are tons of people in shit jobs getting shit pay who are as racist as it gets. In fact I would argue that most people who are racist are working shit jobs for shit pay. And just because the person you know in that job position is a good human being doesn’t absolve others of being racist pieces of shit who look down on black women and use whatever excuse they can use to take their kids from them.
The recommended maximum amount of alcohol while pregnant isn’t zero. 12g a day is what I’m seeing in a quick search. I’m sure Marijuana can be safe for the child below a certain level. This article doesn’t state any levels besides above zero, and it also doesn’t stare any defects caused by it. It does seem to imply no complications though.
I would love to meet these pregnant women responsibly consuming 12g of alcohol and nothing more. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was some dumbass religious “but it’s communion so it’s ok” bullshit.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2043426/
Keep in mind, 12g of alcohol is not 12g of alcohol containing substance. Somewhere around 120-240g of beer should be perfectly fine, depending on the beer. About 1/4 to 1/2 pints per day. If you make that weekly it’s about a pint every other day or so.
If it’s not illegal to drink alcohol and smoke marijuana, I’d like to understand why she and the baby were tested for pot in the first place.
They do a workup on every child born in a hospital. That shit is going to come up on a blood test. Please stop defending someone who gave brain damaged to their child.
Because legal or not smoking pot WHILE PREGNANT is bad. Alcohol is legal, would you have a problem with them testing the mother or babies BAC?
