DHS is no exception. At least two of the parents whose visits I followed who took their children away were themselves in the foster care system. Now, as adults, they have to go to DHS to see their children after they themselves have grown up in the system. These two parents had hostile concerns about DHS in their documents. However, this is another area where Child Welfare interacts with other components of the CJ system. Often, these children are under enormous amounts of stress as they are often tossed from one foster home to another without ever putting down roots and having unstable relationships. These are children who may have behavioral problems, resentment towards DHS, hatred towards the police, lack of relationship with biological parents and indifference towards adoptive parents. These are children who are likely to become part of the Court of Justice system, no longer as victims but as potential offenders. MgY, a 17-year-old, is one of the children in DHS custody. As I followed up on his visit, the SSA pointed out a cut on his arm and some scratches on his elbows. The SSA explained how she had been arrested earlier that week and how she had resisted arrest by fighting the police. These are real cases, real minors who are raised in our child welfare system, whose cases often end up spreading to other components of the CJ system. In other cases, the child welfare system may fail some children completely. In one case, one of the SSAs was transporting AC when he started telling her that the adoptive parents did not feed him, refused him food, and used humiliation as punishment, as well as mistreating him and his brother. From AC's perspective, DHS was supposed to make life better. They took him away from his parents, because the situation was supposed to improve, but now he is being harmed by the very system meant to protect