Chosen Children Quotes

“The horrors of war pale beside the loss of a mother.” -Anna”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“I learned that a covert CIA operation known as ‘The Finders,’ based in Washington DC, was actively involved in kidnapping and trafficking of children since the early 1960s.  This matter was brought to the attention of the FBI and State Department in 1997.  A report by the Metropolitan Police Department was classified ‘Secret’ in the interest of National Security.  The investigation by the FBI was closed down,  however,  according  to  the U.S. Customs  investigation  report.  ‘The Finders’  became  an internal matter. I  have  given  this  information  to  the  FBI  on  seven  occasions,  and  have  demanded  an investigation for the international kidnapping and trafficking of children.”   Fostered,”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“I have interviewed witnesses who were active in an international child kidnapping ring, who advised me that, of  the thousands of children who disappear every year, many are auctioned off, at various locations throughout the country. ”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“What I resent most about the foster care system is that workers never made any genuine effort to reunite me with my family or at least help me to develop a relationship. I feel like I haven't been at home for 5 years because home to me was a little rundown farmhouse where I lived with my father and my brother. If child welfare systems are really in the business for the welfare of children, then my only advice would be to treat them as you would treat your own children.”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“One must ask why government is so reluctant to publish factual data on children in its care.  Unlike the single issue anti-Vietnam War protesters of the 1960s, the more recent “Occupy Wall Street” protesters on the streets and on college campuses nationwide have been protesting not only the larger issue of "corporate greed" and the "buying of Congress," but also resulting issues of a bleeding economy such as the rising cost of tuition, insurmountable student debt, biased economics classes and 15%  unemployment. There has never  been mass protesting  against profits outweighing the needs of the children and adults trapped in America’s failed Foster Care, Adoption and Prison systems  --  in part because each of these complex industries separate, isolate  and effectively censor and brainwash its victims under color of state confidentiality laws. ”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“The Nebraska Supreme Court agreed with Randolph Reeves, who was scheduled  to be executed   1-11-99.  His Omaha Tribe  filed a brief claiming Reeves was  "emotionally damaged" when the State of Nebraska took him from his reservation parents at age 3, and that, because of the removal, the State is "the party to blame" for Reeves' actions.”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“Ten years ago, foster parents typically earned only 80-cents per hour (Time magazine, 10-8-90, p.44).  In 2010, the range was $446 to $667 per child per month. For the difficult challenge of fostering a child needing “specialized care” there  is an  incremental increase of $84 or $169 per month (subsidy determined by the child’s social worker).”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“Los Angeles has more kids in foster care than any other city and it is not unusual to read a news story about a child who was  injured or who needlessly died  in  foster care—after being unjustly  taken from economically disadvantaged parents who are not unfit. ”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“These children often drift from one temporary, abusive or neglectful  situation  to another, and often are  routinely drugged  to control  them ("Prescription for Tragedy, "Los Angeles Times, 5-17-1998). By the time they are legally emancipated adults and return to the streets from which many were rescued, 75% have been sexually abused.”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“70% of all inmates in California’s prisons have spent time in foster care. One third of all those youth who are ‘aged out’ will end up in prison within one year" -Project”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“Many states have relinquishment policies that force parents to choose between keeping their children or getting them help. Those who do relinquish their children may face criminal abandonment charges and may be ineligible to adopt again.”               -- Mary Boo, Assistant Director of the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)  in Minnesota. ”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“There is no national data to show precisely how many adoptions fail, or track how many children need additional help, and states are not required to track or report the figures. ”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“68% of all Child Protective Services (CPS) cases do not involve child maltreatment but are for “deprivation of necessities due to poverty.”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“the Act authorized payments of “adoption bonuses” to states that increased numbers of adoptions over an established baseline to cure state deficits. ”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“The  number of children in foster care right now is the highest it’s ever been. As it encouraged  adoption, ASFA made it easier than ever to take children from their parents  just because those parents are poor.” --Richard Wexler, Exec. Director, National Coalition Child Protection Reform.”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“True orphans” are those whose parents have died and no relative claims them.  But today, children are being removed from their homes as “economic orphans.”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“the estimated U.S. population in 2016 is over 322-million (322,762,018) and the worldwide population is estimated at over 7.4-billion, with fostered and adopted children "over-represented" in U.S. prisons and psychiatric facilities where they are subjected to a myriad of abuses in these systems.”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries

“More costly to America than its “war on terrorism” and our unpaid 19-trillion dollar debt in 2016, is the hidden price tag of systematically dismembered, stolen and incarcerated families and the human rights violations in America’s multi-billion dollar failed Foster Care, Adoption and Prison industries.”
― Lori Carangelo, Chosen Children 2016: People as Commodities in America's Failed Multi-Billion Dollar Foster Care, Adoption and Prison Industries