Don’t underestimate how unruly, disobedient, and oftentimes violent these children are. In the best case, these children have been traumatized by their removal

Don’t underestimate how unruly, disobedient, and oftentimes violent these children are. In the best case, these children have been traumatized by their removal from a family, however dysfunctional. In the worst cases, they’ve suffered abuses that make people support the death penalty. While none of those scars is written on a person, they do manifest in sudden outbursts of screaming, hitting, stealing, and scores more destructive behaviors. For a neglected child, negative attention is preferable to not existing, and if acting out is the only way to make your existence register to the outside world, so be it. Many of those people who placed said children in shackles aren’t practiced in methods to manage traumatized children or understanding of their past, and identify them as ‘problematic’, not ‘traumatized’.