Government: You’re Cleared of Child Abuse, But It’s Too Late to Have Your Children Back

Ouch!

If the child had scurvy it was abuse fo a differnet kind. Look at them, they do not appear to eat well.

“If the child had scurvy it was abuse fo a differnet kind. Look at them, they do not appear to eat well.”

I agree they don’t look as if they eat well. However, I don’t think the conclusion can be made that their appearance alone constitutes abuse. After all, it was said that the scurvy was a rare case.

Anyway, I always feel frustrated when I hear of cases like this. There is a point when bureaucracy goes too far.

Hell on Earth.

Pediatric scurvy is rare in industrialized countries, but can be caused by restrictive diet because of food allergies.

What a nightmare!

The threat of the kids being taken back is one of the things that drives overseas adoptions.

“Governments, courts and judges take a huge risk when they commit these kinds of abuses against families. Eventually, they’ll do it to the wrong person(s); and some lessons will be learned.”

That’s why you can’t own a gun in the U.K. Big Brother doesn’t want you to fight back.

Bizzare that seeing how bad Britain is getting is whats making me (slightly more) proud to live in America.

Why does my comment need moderation? I didn’t use any bad language?!

Nanny State!

You gave up your rights a long time ago to live in a “safer” nation where the gub’ment makes all of your decisions for you.

God bless.

I think that if this was my child, I would handle this differently. But it would probably land me in prison and a judge in traction.

It’s easy to have a knee-jerk reaction (this was written in the Daily Mail, the most knee-jerk, reactionary, proudly ignorant and spiteful paper in the UK, after all) but I have to say the cliche, “Think of the children”. Social Services do make mistakes (sometimes with tragic results), but they act in the best interests of the children involved. Then again, the full facts are probably not available in this article.

Imagining this happening to me made me speachless with anger for a couple of minutes.
Adoption should obviously be reversed in cases where the adoption was not voluntary and both the original parents and the children want it reversed.

All too true MrMag. My husband had his children taken from him and they were given to his horrible ex. She has had 10 kids from 7 different dads – and she looks (and acts) alot like Nadya Suleman, just add another 150lbs. She had abandoned the kids with my husband when the kids were 1&3, and when she decided she wanted some extra spending money, she lied to CPS stating that he was abusive and a molestor – of course they believe the mother 98% of the time without even investigating and they took the kids away. She doesn’t even have the kids with her now, and she’s still collecting child support (which we’re working on reversing and hopefully get her for fraud). CPS is a joke in the US, it sounds just as bad in the UK. They don’t help families, they rip them apart and leave the good parents to repair the damage done to these poor kids.

Let’s not forget that there are two other parties involved here. If the kids have settled in, they don’t deserve the upheaval of being separated again, and if the adoptive parents have bonded with the kids, having to give them up would be as rough on them as it was for the kids original parents.

Obviously, the kids should never have been taken, but that isn’t the issue any more. The issue is what’s best for the children.

Also? The idea that Social Services are looking out for the best interests of The State (scary capitalisation!) is patently laughable. What possible benefit is there to playing Find The Lady with other peoples kids? Do you think The State have some kind of top secret oppression device powered by the tears of children, or something? No. It’s just good ol’ fashioned incompetence, that’s all.

And this is why we should give more power to the government.

These state organizations behave rashly sometimes in an effort to show why they exist. If there weren’t any child abuse, then they wouldn’t get paid, so they go around seeking dragons to slay.

“That’s why you can’t own a gun in the U.K. Big Brother doesn’t want you to fight back.”

Because someone having a gun would make this situation better? How would anyone being shot do anything positive?

Having the benefit of being a parent on my side, if I ever adopted and a few years later was told the child was wrongly taken from his/her parents, you can bet your sweet tookus I’d be letting the child go back. “Think of the other parents.” Bull.

What a kerfuffle!