While the media is providing wall-to-wall coverage over families being separated at the border when trying to enter the U.S. illegally, howling in outrage without providing any context over some of the reasons they are being separated (such as a convicted rapist separated from his 5 year old daughter after trying to enter the country illegally again), we have to wonder where that same outrage is over the tens of thousands of American children being "ripped from their parents arms" by states' child protective services.
According to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau,
the data for fiscal year (FY) 2016 shows that 437,465 children are in the U.S. foster care system, with 273,539 having entered the foster care system in during FY 2016, for a variety of reasons, some legitimate, and some not as we will show within this article.
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