Episode 9: MWB on Legalized Medical Kidnapping & Child Abuse Pediatrics

This episode of Mommying While Black™ discusses how families are being ripped apart through a phenomenon known as legalized medical kidnapping.  If you live in America, are black, and have children under the age of 18, each trip you make the an urgent care, emergency room, standard pediatric visit puts your child/children under the lens of intense scrutiny and your family the casualties of medical kidnapping i.e. Child Protective Services (CPS) taking all minors in the household.  In far more sinister and gut-wrenching cases, parental rights are severed forever through the American judicial system.  Sadly, your family could be next. The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) is the leading organization for physician board certification.  As such, ABMS provides the "expertise, insights and support to elevate the discipline of specialty medicine." (https://www.abms.org/about-abms/) .  In 2006, ABMS began to recognize the subspecialty in medicine known as child abuse pediatrics. In this episode, MWB sits down with Brittany Budlove, a mother fighting the state of Florida and CPS to regain custody of her 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Teigan.  Teigan was only 9-months-old when she was taken away from her mother in December 2019.  Brittany was permitted 1-hour/week with Teigan and when the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, Brittany's visits became virtual visits with her beautiful, infant daughter.  By spring/summer 2020, the virtual visits ceased.  No criminal nor civil charges have ever been filed against Brittany.  However, the state of Florida found it justifiable to grant an expedited request to terminate Brittany's parental rights to Teigan. December 2021 will mark two LONG years since Brittany has had custody of Teigan or spent any meaningful amount of time with her always smiling, bubbly daughter.  A GoFundMe has been set up to raise money for Brittany to retain a competent, proficient, family law attorney and secure medical experts.  Please share Brittany's story and donate.  No donation is too small.  https://www.gofundme.com/f/get-justice-and-bring-teigan-home Listen as MWB gets into this raw discussion with Brittany (IG @britbrat0912). #JusticeForTeigan #BringTeiganHome Mommying While Black  IG @mommyingwhileblk