Virginia Jarvis:  

I was raised in the woods until we moved to Ballard. I was being hidden as I am the crippled abortion that lived.I had three surgeries on each foot so I can walk. Those years at Ballard were the best of my life, though I was too shy to make many friends. Mom turned the family against me and tried to with her friends who were disgusted with her. I was not allowed many friends except one or two and only if they would allow my little sister to tag a long. She did not like my husbands. My kids were her target too as she put them in foster homes where they were abused and messed up. They sure wern't loved. Foster care is torment for kids to begin with. Since then I have done a lot of research on the foster care situation and it is so horrible it is beyond belief as most of the kids wind up in prison and are treated like slaves as the prison system is now privatized and they are nothing but commodities to be traded on Wall Street. It would save a bundle of money and prevent a tyon of misery if they do away with foster homes. Orphanages were better. Even those hurt kids.Their rights have been denied and they rarely get over the traumatising experinces they are forced to go thru. Gov. Howard Dean of VT got rid of most except extreme cases and solved his states financial woes as well. He gave parents parenting classes and job training. He would have been the best President to happen to this country but the media was against him. So look what we got instead. I got the ACLU book on the Rights of Families and have helped several young women who's kids were illegally taken (and abused) back with their mom, One is a very good friend now. She got a nice settlement from the State. We are in such dire straights as a nation now because the system is broken and the people who allowed it were...Expand for more