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What The Adoption Of One Kansas City Mother's Child Says About Race In The Child Welfare System


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Samantha Maria Mungai is now raising a two-year-old in Kansas, which makes advocates wonder why Missouri s decided last year she was unable to parent her oldest child, ultimately allowing another, white family to adopt the little girl.
Samantha Mungai, an immigrant from Kenya, left her child alone while she went to work in July of 2017. This is the story of what participants in this case, and those who work in the system, say that parents who are Black, low income, or immigrants can face as they try to be reunited with their kids.
Samantha Maria Mungai, 26, knows she made a mistake the night she left her four-year-old daughter alone in their Gladstone, Missouri, apartment to go to work the night of July 13, 2017, resulting in a court decision that found her guilty of negligence. ....

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