NY: Co-opting lived experience: A former foster youth wrote a powerful Guest Essay for The New York Times. The family policing establishment rushed to subvert it to advance its own agenda (Opinion)
NCCPR Child Welfare Blog – September 28, 2021
Sixto Cancel grew up in foster care, survived the experience and now runs Think of Us, an organization dedicated to changing the system that did him, and so many other children, so much harm. He wrote a powerful Guest Essay for The New York Times about his experiences. Representatives of an assortment of “stakeholders” — none of whom has nearly as much of a stake as Cancel and others forced to endure the system, but all of them apparently white and middle-class — swarmed over the essay, writing letters to the Times seeking to use the essay to support their agenda.
Also: I Will Never Forget That I Could Have Lived With People Who Loved Me (Opinion) (May require subscription): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/opinion/foster-care-children-us.html

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