Our government decides that a 5-year-old child can give informed consent to waive her rights.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

VeryHiddenGeniusHat Retweeted:

The form says “child’s signature.”
This is by design. This is not a stopgap. This is our government deciding that a 5 year old child can give informed consent to waive her rights.

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Here is a contract, designed for children, with an option to forfeit their rights, that 5-year-old asylum seeker Helen practiced spelling her name on. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-five-year-old-who-was-detained-at-the-border-and-convinced-to-sign-away-her-rights …

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[CrispyQ]

1. No words. -nt

[dawg day]

2. How has our country become this?

We were sort of on an upward path-- DACA for the Dreamers-- that was a sensible and compassionate policy. Paris Accords
--

And now-- a minority president gets in because of manipulation by Putin and the resentment and racism of a minority of voters--

and here we are. Forcing children to give up their rights- tricking parents into giving up their children-- declaring that we have the right to forcibly give children into adoption without their parents' consent.

This is EVIL. Are we that close to evil?
Do we even care?

BTW, Melania, you think you're the most bullied person in the world? Try being Helen, a five-year-old torn from her parents and forced now to sign a form saying she has no rights.

[Guilded Lilly]

3. The grotesqueness of the vile men who actually perform these actions cannot...

Be measured on the inhumanity scale.
Yes, this is what America has become.
This is what craven men create.
This is the foul stench of evil that emanates from enabling an insane buffoon into insanely corrupted power.
Yeah.
It’s happened.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. How absurd is this?

A person cannot open the web page for a Brewpub without confirming that the viewer is 18, but it is OK for a 5-year old to sign away her rights?

My GAWD, what have we become?