The child welfare system purports to protect children but it inflicts physical, emotional, and mental pain on families caught in its web. In 2020, 215,000 children were removed from their homes and placed in foster care. Twenty-five percent of those children were Black, yet Black children only account for approximately 14% of the youth population in the United States. This disparity is a continuation of a long history of controlling and separating Black families in the United States.