Shattered Families, the groundbreaking new report from ARC

As parents are detained and deported, an increasing number of kids are stuck in the foster care system, with little hope of reuniting with their mothers and fathers. It's an injustice that hurts everyone.

Read and share the groundbreaking new report from the Applied Research Center. http://arc.org/shatteredfamilies

Illustrations by Wendy MacNaughton http://wendymacnaughton.com
Music by OJ Law http://ojlaw.co
additional media courtesy of Deportation Nation http://deportationnation.org

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[valibal]

do ya'll have this with spanish subtitles??

[racialjustice]

@valibal Yes, we should have them working on this video later today!

[andrewsaccount09]

and conservatives who have no problem with the deportations then turn around and preach "family values"...a.k.a. Fear the Gays! Atheists! Sex education! Science! Women's liberation!

[krissybassist]

pathetic! there are so many children already who have been subject to the foster care system because they've unfortunately been orphaned or other situations where their parents couldn't take care of them so why add to the problem by taking away kids from parents/families who can take care of them. The foster care system is messed up as it is, this is just unnecessary. So much for child "protective" services.

[ddmoore1]

The video implies that under the Obama administration this situation has become worse to record proportions...Do you think that he is the cause of this issue or did it exist before this administration? Putting a statement like that is NOT going to benefit this situation with another president in office. Look at the message that GOP are sending towards immigration...I dont think much thought was put into that statement...FYI, I am an Independent...I vote for the best qualified person for the job

[briandeestar]

this pisses me of so much! God bless the families

[anime1973]

@xXxLinguagirlxXx men regularly have their children legally kidnapped in the family court system during divorce. The whole system is corrupt. My friend hasn't seen his daugter in two years because the mother denies him access despite several warnings from the judge.... but the first time he tried to withhold child support as a means of gaining compliance from the mother... he was put in jail.

[hkiersey]

This is so heartbreaking.

[xXxLinguagirlxXx]

This made me cry :(

I wonder how the people in charge would feel if their children were taken away for months on end without them knowing what was going on. I think things would be different then.

Just not fair for either the parents or the children.