I’ve adopted and dealt with foster kids.

Almost anything is better the removing them. We adopted a teen from foster care. Every single person she knew that ended up in the system is either in jail. On hard drugs. In Abusive relationships. Or have kids already taken away. Or all of the above.

Being bounced around from home to home just destroyed their sense of belonging.

We had a brutal number of years of lost health l destroyed finances and everything else before she finally knew we loved her and wanted her. But I did get to finally walk her down the aisle and she is with a good man now.