The Dark TRUTH About 800,000 Missing Kids (The System Is Failing Them)
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 108 minutes
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What if foster care wasn’t about saving kids—but profiting from keeping them broken? In this eye-opening episode of Dropping Bombs, I sit down with Dr. Danisha Keating—a former foster youth who endured 33 relocations, abuse, and homelessness before 24, then became guardian to her five siblings, earned a PhD, and is now leading the charge to reform the system itself.
Danisha’s story is brutal and inspiring: from surviving trauma most wouldn’t escape, to becoming a professor, public speaker, and best-selling author of Taking My Voice Back and From Foster to PhD. She’s experienced the failures of CPS firsthand, and now she’s turning that pain into purpose—building trauma-informed practices, reshaping higher education for foster youth, and exposing the cracks that keep kids trapped in cycles of neglect.
This isn’t a feel-good fairytale—it’s a wake-up call. Danisha drops bombs on what’s broken in foster care, how she reclaimed her voice, and why grit and purpose—not pity—are the real blueprint for change.
🔗 Resources
🌐Dr. Danisha Keating Website: https://www.danishakeating.com/
📚Books by Danisha: https://www.danishakeating.com/books
📲Follow Dr. Danisha on Instagram: @drdanishakeating (https://www.instagram.com/drdanishakeating/)
🎥Dr. Danisha’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedrdanishakeatingshow
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| 0:00.0 | Start to see 800,000 children go missing. |
| 0:03.0 | Where are they going? |
| 0:04.3 | They're usually going into s or human trafficking. |
| 0:07.3 | Yeah, that's what it is. |
| 0:08.0 | Little kids, defenseless little kids. |
| 0:10.5 | What kind of a scumbag piece of you could do that? |
| 0:13.5 | Unfortunately, the number one predator for sexual abuses. |
| 0:16.3 | What would these old guys do with you? |
| 0:19.1 | A lot of it was, and I'm just going to be blunt, like flat out honest. |
| 0:22.7 | A lot of it was them. |
| 0:23.8 | So you got issues everywhere with this system. |
| 0:27.5 | How do you fix it? |
| 0:29.1 | And this is going to be my conspiracy theory moment. |
| 0:31.8 | People are going to go, wow. |
| 0:37.1 | What it is, Brad Lee back again with another episode of dropping bombs today, folks, in the studio. |
| 0:43.7 | I've got a real treat for you. |
| 0:45.3 | She's lived the battlefield, abused, homeless, and a foster youth who became legal guardian to her siblings at only 24. Dislexia, 33 relocations before age 24, |
| 0:59.1 | living in cars, didn't break her. They actually built her. She turned trauma into triumph and found |
| 1:06.1 | a mission, smash the system that failed her. Now she's obviously out kicking butt, frontlining reform in higher education, |
| 1:14.0 | giving foster youth the tools, resources, and grit to go from surviving to soaring, |
| 1:19.9 | research-backed, trauma-informed, and unapologetically authentic. |
| 1:24.4 | She's already reshaped community college support programs and launched a |
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