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6. Black male infants are the hardest to place across the board

Reply to Marnie (Reply #5)

Sun Jan 29, 2012, 08:02 PM

Jan 2012

True, many of these infants are not voluntarily relinquished, either, but taken from their mothers as part of the War on ~~Poor People~~ Drugs. The mother and infant both become prisoners of the state.

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