I found out the inspiration for this story came from the horrific history of residential schools in Canada and the 60's scoop (for non-Canadians, this is a particularly dark period of our recent history where we stole Indigenous children from their families and adopted them out to white families for no other real reason than that they were Indigenous children...and many families have never been reconnected with their lost children). It does not sit well with me that a self-professed white dude decided to cash in on this horror while simultaneously trying to make it sound like less of the horror it was by whimsifying it.