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We need better data on adoption, and we need to start asking why it isn’t being tracked.
In the United States, there is no comprehensive national database tracking serious crimes committed by adoptees or crimes committed against adoptees, including abuse, neglect, and murder by adoptive family members.
Why aren’t we tracking this information?
These statistics matter. Not to stigmatize adoptees or suggest that adoption causes criminal behavior, but to better understand the long-term effects of adoption, childhood trauma, separation, identity struggles, and the environments in which adoptees are raised.
We should be asking important questions:
Are adoptees disproportionately represented in certain crime statistics?
How many adoptees experience abuse, neglect, or violence within their adoptive families?
Are there patterns involving age at adoption, foster care history, or early childhood trauma?
What protective factors help adoptees thrive?
Could better data help identify warning signs, improve support systems, and prevent future tragedies?
We cannot fully understand what we refuse to measure.
Adoption is often discussed through the lens of the adoptive family, but we need to look at the lifelong experiences of adoptees themselves, including the difficult and uncomfortable realities.
Tracking this information isn’t about placing blame. It’s about research, accountability, prevention, and making sure adoptees have the resources and protections they deserve.
If we truly care about adoptees, we need to be willing to study all outcomes, not just the success stories.
Adoptee voices matter. Adoptee experiences matter. And the data matters.
#AdopteeVoices #AdoptionAwareness #AdopteeRights #AdoptionReform #AdoptionResearch
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•Jonathan S. Roberts (Attorney). He is a public defense attorney based in Detroit, Michigan, serving as an Assistant Federal Defender for the Federal Community Defender for the Eastern District of Michigan. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
A master class in public speaking May 24, 2017 #Harvard
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One of the top officials at the U.S. Marshals Service (Peter Marketos) has been placed on leave over his alleged involvement in an incident in which a watermelon was left on the desk of a Black deputy assistant director #petermarketos
Piers Morgan challenges Jonathan Conricus over double standards on Islamophobia, antisemitism and religious freedom in a heated debate
Piers Morgan: “There's a woman standing there who is just being blatantly Islamophobic.”
Jonathan Conricus: “Anything where the root, the first letters of Islam is mentioned, there's this heightened sensitivity.”
Piers Morgan: “As opposed to Judaism and Jews and Israel?”
Jonathan Conricus: “They are the most targeted ethnic group in the UK by far. Hate crimes against Jews are 10 times the amount of attacks against Muslims.”
Kieran Andrieu: “That's complete nonsense. You're a professional liar. You're lying now.”
Jonathan Conricus: “There are problems with institutional Islam. If you let Islamists take over institutions, they will use your system against you.”
Piers Morgan: “But she didn't say Islamist. She said Islam. Why are you defending this?”
Kieran Andrieu: “You could have easily just said, 'I condemn that.' I think you do a good impression of a reasonable person.”
Piers Morgan: “If she had said she wanted Judaism removed from British political institutions, you'd have gone nuts. I'm talking about the double standards.”
Jonathan Conricus: “I've said the most horrific things about the Jewish state and the IDF.”
Kieran Andrieu: “If somebody at a Nakba demonstration had called for Judaism to be removed from British institutions, almost everybody there would have condemned them.”
Jonathan Conricus: “Just like they condemned the Hamas flags and all the calls for genocide.”
Kieran Andrieu: “How many of those demonstrations have you actually been to?”
Jonathan Conricus: “Just as many as you have been on the other side.”
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.@pennbarker on Pete Hegseth claiming Washington will go after military members who followed his orders:
“One of the most infuriating things Hegseth does…is constantly hide behind the people in uniform…One who cowers is a coward.”
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Replying to @RepJeffries
Wow. 258 seats and counting!
Voters didn’t just send a message. They delivered a political ass-whipping.
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U.S. Rep.-elect Donavan McKinney posted this image with new and returning members of Michigan’s Democratic Congressional delegation. Retiring U.S. Sen. Gary Peters also in the picture.
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen is basically telling AIPAC “too bad” after they ran attack ads against him in Maryland.
“It’s really not worth being a member of the House or Senate if you can’t look yourself in the mirror at the end of the day.”
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Abdul El-Sayed has been constantly sticking up for Canada and calling out Trump for his stupid tariffs.
This is why Canadians love this guy! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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We need better data on adoption, and we need to start asking why it isn’t being tracked.
In the United States, there is no comprehensive national database tracking serious crimes committed by adoptees or crimes committed against adoptees, including abuse, neglect, and murder by adoptive family members.
Why aren’t we tracking this information?
These statistics matter. Not to stigmatize adoptees or suggest that adoption causes criminal behavior, but to better understand the long-term effects of adoption, childhood trauma, separation, identity struggles, and the environments in which adoptees are raised.
We should be asking important questions:
Are adoptees disproportionately represented in certain crime statistics?
How many adoptees experience abuse, neglect, or violence within their adoptive families?
Are there patterns involving age at adoption, foster care history, or early childhood trauma?
What protective factors help adoptees thrive?
Could better data help identify warning signs, improve support systems, and prevent future tragedies?
We cannot fully understand what we refuse to measure.
Adoption is often discussed through the lens of the adoptive family, but we need to look at the lifelong experiences of adoptees themselves, including the difficult and uncomfortable realities.
Tracking this information isn’t about placing blame. It’s about research, accountability, prevention, and making sure adoptees have the resources and protections they deserve.
If we truly care about adoptees, we need to be willing to study all outcomes, not just the success stories.
Adoptee voices matter. Adoptee experiences matter. And the data matters.
#AdopteeVoices #AdoptionAwareness #AdopteeRights #AdoptionReform #AdoptionResearch
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Leigh McGowan, Erin Ryan, and Alyssa Mastromonaco on the midterms’ hottest heartthrobs.
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Stunned to see my friend @RepAOC surprise me with a Diet Coke cake adorned with Michigan maize and blue!






















