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These three young men all cousins aged out of child welfare after 8-9 years. Tonight we made banners for tomorrow’s #BringOurChildrenHome day of action in Winnipeg, Vancouver, Kelowna, a William’s Lake and Toronto. 
These is Tamara’s son Lee and his two cousins. All are lovely intelligent young men. They spoke to me at length about their experiences as wards of CFS and the trauma it caused. They talked about being moved around from hotels to foster homes. Each on average 9 times.
They all wanted to go home and their mom’s were stable. Tamara’s sister had six children, all apprehended. Her daughter who would be 23 this year committed suicide at the age of 12. She was apprehended from her dad’s home when the mom and dad were in a custody battle.
Just heard 2day of pregnant Indigenous women planning to give birth in secret out of fear of CFS apprehensions b/c they were wards as kids.
I believe in midwifery and that restoring midwifery practices is one of the most important of all resurgence actions Indigenous ppl can take
But this is scary. Women who are pregnant should not have to hide their pregnancies out of fear.
