Roxanna Asgarian

“If you come from privilege,' she explained, 'and you respect money and power, and the people in your court don't have any of that- it's unconcious and sometimes concious racism and classism.”
― Roxanna Asgarian, We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

“Unlike kids in family homes, kids in foster care today rely on a separate state agency, Residential Child Care Investigations, to look into reports of suspected abuse or neglect. That agency has a tendency to downgrade abuse reports without ever investigating them. During four months in 2019, the agency ruled out nearly half of the more than nine hundred abuse reports it received- with no investigation whatsoever.”
― Roxanna Asgarian, We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America