"With great power comes great responsibility ". This quote has become so popular but often not quoted with both sides of the coin well accounted for. It is more appropriate and complete to state that "With great power comes great responsibility that is either fashioned to sprout evil or good.".
This is what I see with the First world nations and their structured child protective agencies. They have amassed much power to themselves within the sect of Laws, and their government have keyed to themselves more power than ever before, power to easily cut off family bonds and trample on parental rights which leads to a systemic alienation.
They have amassed to themselves a strong series of inter-connectivity that lay to the easy trackingand documentation of children. Created laws applied various structures that could lead to the safeguarding of children from parental abuse, so it seems. But this great power has been applied faultily to bring pains to children and families instead of what it seem it was intended for, a corrupted power.
I know human trafficking whenever I see it, in whatever form it might be disguised, but the CPA system is one that 50 yrs ago would have been overwhelmingly unbelievable and doubted to ever exist. They have come so far to trade children confidently and without fear. Many believe slave trading, sex-trafficking, human trafficking are a myth in the 21st century, but what surprises me more than their ignorance of these people is how close it happens under their very own bowels and never acknowledge it.
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Many governments of the world; US, UK, Canada, and so many of them, have given the right soil for human trading to occur, branded in fine words like "Child Protection" wrapped under the disguise of "Family Aid" and transported under the image of "Government Fostering". I know slavery when I see it and trafficking when I encounter it. It isn't something happening outside the boundaries of these nation, it is what happens within their very own boarders.
A History Many Are Aware Of, Maybe.
As an African descent, I was proud to learn of my people and the horrors they passed through and may still be passing through. History is such a nice teacher, because via it you learn what "was" and then perhaps what will "be"(Fustory). Africa was known as the farmland or harvest ground of slaves and source from which human trafficking was pulled and exported into strange White lands.
Children, teenagers, men, women plucked from their ancestral lands and shipped off. Any history lover who studied the Great Slave Era, would know that these people, children and teens included where displayed on an auction block to "buyers" who access their qualities, fineness, roundness, sexiness, eye colors, genital size, hair length, beauty, masculinity. The list goes on and on, people were displayed and sold off to the highest bidder.
People(Children included) were sold and bought by slavers in accordance to their qualities to work on farmlands, work in lumbering spot, work as harlots, for child rearing and many more crimes!.
The CPA System Is No Different
Human trafficking simply became "Digital" and sort of legalized, nothing has really changed since the traditional slavery was abolished. Now children are listed on web platforms, each nation having a similar format of online directory where a child qualities are displayed for them to be auctioned away for dollars, euro, pounds, you name it all in the disguise of finding a Unicorn home for them.
I need a blue eyed girl
We need a newborn baby to adopt
We need two young boys(Homosexuals)
We need girls of young age, pretty once(Pedophiles)
I need as many children you can get(Foster funding)
I would prefer a blonde
I don't need native children
I can keep listing on and on, children being adopted out, or sent into the foster world based on their criteria, appearance, age, strength just like the slave Era. Where are these children gotten from if not from homes and most of which were innocent to begin with but were victimized by a incentivised system.
With Much Power Came Much Evil
With much power comes much responsibility, but this have been fashioned into a beautiful system that target children and makes it easy to traffic them. No one would call it trafficking nor slavery if the government says it is Legal, But as an African, and a free thinker I would say CPAs of those nations that practice incentive removal of children is just as guilty as though it were the Slave Era. I call a spade by its name, and there is no other name you can call such systems that encourage needless harm, legal kidnaps and trafficking.
Be A Free Thinker,
Aghogho.