A five year old boy and his four year old sister have been taken from their mother because she is a recovering heroin addict and not considered capable of caring for her children. For over two years they have been cared for by their (46 year old) grandmother and (59 year old) grandfather in Edinburgh. Social services consider that the grandparents are too old to provide appropriate care and so have pushed for the children to be adopted. The grandparents have contested this decision in the courts but gave in because they could not afford the legal bills.Social services have decided to place the children with a male same-sex couple. There were plenty of heterosexual couples who wanted to adopt the children but social services decided that the gay couple could best meet their needs. This despite the fact that as part of the court records, the grandparents hold a social work report which says that the little girl is not happy around men.
The grandparents have expressed their view that the children should be looked after by a mother and a father and are not happy that the children have been placed with a gay couple. (The mother is not happy either.)
Obviously the grandparents would like to keep in regular contact with their grandchildren. Social services have told them that they would 'certainly look' at allowing them access to the children 'when you are able to come back with an open mind on the issues.' Having an "open mind" of course means not expressing any politically incorrect views about gay adoption.
See:
Telegraph: Mother's anger over gay couple's adoption of her children
Daily Mail: 'They say we're too old to care for our grandchildren': Social workers hand brother and sister to gay men for adoption
18 comments:
SICK.
I'm glad you don't allow crude language on your blog, Fr. Because I'd be really letting loose right about now.
The children have a right to be loved and cared for by a mother and a father. In this particular case where the mother is incapable due to a drug problem then the next obvious best placement is with family and Grandparents are ideal! To claim that teh grandparents are too old is ridiculous but then by-pass potential adoptive heterosexual couples (presumably fully checked and suitable) and deliberately place the children with a homosexual couple is just plain MAD! This is the 'PC' Britain that we have allowed to sneak up on us through the back door because we have all been asleep! Not enough voices to call a stop to this nonsense.
Our government has enshrined depravity in law and these whacky liberals who run the various agencies have got such 'open minds' that their brains have fallen out!!!
I feel so sorry for the Grandparents who must feel utterly helpless because they are up against the bland 'I only work 'ere mate, it's our policy' faces of 'the State'. We can only pray for the children that they may somehow come through all this unscathed. A sick twist on child abuse in our modern world!
It is clearly monstrous - health and age "concerns" are the excuse not the reason: they want to demonstrate who is in charge, and what the new society will look like which they are trying to forge. It is certainly not a society in which Christ is King.
Mike
Nothing like starting my day with a bit of heartburn.
In America, our anti-discrimination laws include age as one of protected categories. Is there a corollary in the UK?
I had no idea such an appalling thing could happen! What a tragedy. This is a "free" society?
These people are truly satanic who are pushing this agenda. It's bad enough with "gays" supposedly being allowed to be "married" and everyone is supposed to act as if this were good and normal, but they are literally putting children's souls at risk, and that is satanic.
The British Association for Adoption and Fostering has a Policy and Practice page on their website. It states:
Matching and Placing Children
After adopters have been approved the next step is to find a suitable match (or link) between adopters and children waiting to be adopted. This is a crucial stage of the adoption process and must take into account all of the child's needs and characteristics, and if possible the views of the child and those currently involved in their care. Close attention must be paid to the characteristics and parenting capacity of the potential adoptive parents.
A useful summary of the key considerations in determining a good match is provided in the Adoption Taskforce notes on permanence planning. Go to the website available at http://www.elsc.org.uk
Linking and introductions: helping children join adoptive families is a BAAF Good Practice Guide that looks at the process of linking children with families, and goes on to examine introductions and how to prepare and support the child during the move.
The use of DNA testing to determine racial background. A statement by BAAF and the British Society for Human Genetics
I invite readers to see the section on racial background. Much importance seems to be attached to this.
Meanwhile it is hard to see that the decisions in this case comply with the BAAF matching policy.
In the spring 2002 (vol 26 (1)) issue of Adoption and Fostering Abstracts there seems to be an article of interest.
Placement with grandparents: the issues for grandparents who care for their grandchildren
David Pitcher
This article describes research undertaken to understand the needs of grandparents who take on the care of their grandchildren following abuse or neglect. Thirty-three families were interviewed between February and April 1999. Most of them had substantial involvement with social services in placement, assessment and support. The study concluded that many grandparent carers experience a sense of isolation from their families and friends, and feel that social services have left them to get on without clear channels for help. It also revealed the real delight many carers have in their grandchildren, and suggested that this is a special quality of these placements. The article ends by describing local developments that have resulted from the study.
David Pitcher is a social worker with Plymouth City Council
Dear Father
This is downright scary and underlines the grave state (in both senses of those last two words) that we now live in!
The only reason that there is not yet open and widespread persecution of Christians, and others who believe in the family, is because not too many have rocked the boat on these things up to now. However all the laws and attitudes are firmly in place.
Let us all pray for one another that we may not be put to the test - and that if we are that we shall stand for Christ.
Contemporary Britain represents a place and time of trial but also of great Grace and merit to be won for the kingdom.
God bless you and all that you do to encourage and unify Christians in the Faith!
Alan and Angeline
it is false to believe that this is just political correctness- this is rather the work of the evil one which we collaborate in unless we are prepared to fight. His ways are cunning and oh-so-persuasive, but goodness and truth will prevail. Those who contribute to this will be judged according to their sin. May Our Blessed Lady and St Joseph keep watch over those children.
I think the profile(s) of the social worker(s) who made this decision should be made public. I hope the Daily Mail does its job on this one. I smell Social and Political Engineering, but hard to prove without knowing more. Those poor children could use our prayers. God help them and protect them.
Are there any Millionnaires out there who could fund the grand-parents' challenge ?
Shame on Social services! What are we coming too, this spiraling into a moral-absent abyss!
Funny how the dictatorship of relativism absolutises evil.
I live in england now but I'll always consider edinburgh as my home. I was born, raised and educated in what is a wonderful city. Scotland is a wonderful country. But this... Well I'm lost for words. I'm not suprised, but I'm appauled.
My old parish priest used to say that the Devil often operates with a spiders web approach. He sets very slowly the trap, then sits and waits whilst everything else flies into it. First contraception, then abortion, then IVF, then Eugenics, then euthanasia and now civil partnerships (I refuse to call it marriage because this is a sacrament) and gay adoption. I honestly dread to think what comes next.
One thing it clearly does show... The Church in Scotland through lacks leadership over the last 45 years has failed in many ways. I'd hate to be one of those the bishops waiting to see St. Peter.
"Our government has enshrined depravity in law and these whacky liberals who run the various agencies have got such 'open minds' that their brains have fallen out"
You sum it up George.
How many cases don't get publicised because of the bullying by the social services?
It is a true scandal. We have to pray unceasingly that these injustices will be put right.
these children are the future; there's no way they will emerge unscathed.
I wrote this to british ambassador in my country:
Her Majesty's Ambassador Mr. Michael Roberts,
I write you in a very urgent matter. I read today in the Daily Mail that 2 children were taken away from their grandparents in Edinburg. The grandparents were taking care of the children because the mother was a recovering heroin addict.
The reason for taking the children away from the grandparents was that they were deemed too old to take care of them. But they are only 46 and 59!
To add insult to injury, the children were given to a homosexual couple despite protests from the children and despite there were other heterosexual couples interested in the children.
Mr. Roberts, I don't think this is in the best interest of the children.
Please, I beg you, use the powers you have to intervene in this matter, to stop this INJUSTICE.
Thank you.
Sincerally,
Stefan Radacovsky
citizen of EU
P.S. Here is the Daily Mail article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1130066/They-say-old-care-grandchildren-Social-workers-hand-siblings-gay-men-adoption.html
How can they argue about the age of the grandparents. Women give birth naturally at that age - Just look at Cherie Blair. Then there is IVF, never mind the psychiatrist who wanted and had a child in her late 60s - through artificial methods!!!!
Grandparents have always been there to bring up their grandchildren when tragedy strikes.
What is going on with people today. Why are they so desperate to make childrens lives miserable. It definately is the work of the devil - and the only thing we can fight him with is PRAYER - SO PRAY.
St Nilas was right with his prophesy!!!
I am 17. If the Lord is kind to me I might have another sixty years to live in the corrupt and evil society. I do not want to grow up in this Britain.
Any older readers here are lucky; you may yet escape the worst of it. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm subjected to euthanasia if I'm still alive then. I do hope that's counted as martyrdom...
When my daughter is unwell and can't look after her son(2)my wife and I give him an high standard of love and care. My daughter's health worker has said he is an happy and well adjusted child. We are aged 58 and certainly not passed our sell-by date. Families need support not fears that they my loose their kids. When will authorities get things in proportion and stop trying to cover their own backs.
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