johnhemming wrote:In studying the international situation I have come to the conclusion that allowing forced adoption creates a situation where the child protection system ends up at war with families. As a consequence more children die.
Precisely, before I saw this nonsense first hand I though we had a system in place where everyone works together to ensure the child’s best interests are met – That you would have the parent ensuring or trying to make sure the child needs are met, the social services also doing the same but in a professional manner, in some instances supporting the parent so this can be passed on via the parent to the child.
The outcome a continuing path of support for the child.
What we have got however are situations where the parents are managing perfectly fine but the social services finding every opportunity to insert themselves into family life, in other cases the parent only needs support but instead the social services going in jackboots first.
The outcome is a constant battle between the parents & social services, the child gets lost in this, as the parents are having to divide time that would have been spend solely on the child between the child & fighting the social services, just the stress of dealing with the social services means parents are drained therefore this impacts on the child, besides the other party that could have an helpful input is no longer ‘there’ are they are busy fighting the parents.
When it gets to courts it is worse still, the ones who are supposed to be looking out for the child’s best interest GAL/LA are twisting facts that directly have a detrimental effect on the child.
Then when you fight back you can't "cooperate" - Well I don't blame parents for not "cooperating", if in order to "cooperate" you must do as the social services say including being submissive to forced adoption, then I fully support all people who do not cooperate.
johnhemming wrote:Hence it is a good idea to take on forced adoption more directly.
I agree the whole concept makes me sick, it’s just too loose.