Mixed race adoption?
Discussion
hyphen said:
If you have money in your pocket, you can probably get pretty much anything you like from a poor African nation where corruption is rife.
Genuine question - were there howls of indignation from the PC bridge when Madonna and Angelina made their adoptions? Or was it considered "good cos they reaching poor kids"?
andymadmak said:
Just seen this story on the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-404...
A sikh couple have been refused to enter the adoption process, because only white families are needed in their area!
Surely a child needs a loving family.... skin colour shouldn't come into it!
What on earth is wrong with a Sikh couple (or a black couple or lime green couple etc etc) adopting a white child?
Seems exactly right.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-404...
A sikh couple have been refused to enter the adoption process, because only white families are needed in their area!
Surely a child needs a loving family.... skin colour shouldn't come into it!
What on earth is wrong with a Sikh couple (or a black couple or lime green couple etc etc) adopting a white child?
Black people should adopt black kids, white people should adopt white kids.
Gays and lesbians, and same sex relationships should be barred from any adoption
Register1 said:
andymadmak said:
Just seen this story on the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-404...
A sikh couple have been refused to enter the adoption process, because only white families are needed in their area!
Surely a child needs a loving family.... skin colour shouldn't come into it!
What on earth is wrong with a Sikh couple (or a black couple or lime green couple etc etc) adopting a white child?
Seems exactly right.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-404...
A sikh couple have been refused to enter the adoption process, because only white families are needed in their area!
Surely a child needs a loving family.... skin colour shouldn't come into it!
What on earth is wrong with a Sikh couple (or a black couple or lime green couple etc etc) adopting a white child?
Black people should adopt black kids, white people should adopt white kids.
Gays and lesbians, and same sex relationships should be barred from any adoption
Wiccan of Darkness said:
I can see the councils POV on this one. There's a lot to consider, not just about the prospective parents. The child too needs to be able to have an identity. Being adopted is bad enough but being 'different' from ones parents has the potential to be detrimental to the childs sense of identity.
For all those bloody do-gooders who say oh it might NOT happen, well the chance that it might is as good a reason as any to foster a child with ethnically similar parents.
I mean, we're talking about a child. A human life. It's irresponsible to take a gamble with that child. You can't say 15 years later when the lack of self identity hits that child and you're cutting the noose from around their neck having found them hanging to then simply say "win some, lose some".
We don't know the other reasons, if any, why the sikh couple were not chosen. But as usual, they start screaming racism because they feel victimised because something so precious as a childs life didn't go the way they wanted.
Children are not objects. They're sentient beings with real emotions and that seems to be lost on a lot of people. Who knows, perhaps the child on a visit said 'nah, their house smells of curry, I don't like it'.
Once again, the PC brigade seek to politicise something and frankly it really roasts my pelican.
Where do you draw the line though? Someone more hardline could apply the same argument to "straight children being identity confused by gay adoptive parents" For all those bloody do-gooders who say oh it might NOT happen, well the chance that it might is as good a reason as any to foster a child with ethnically similar parents.
I mean, we're talking about a child. A human life. It's irresponsible to take a gamble with that child. You can't say 15 years later when the lack of self identity hits that child and you're cutting the noose from around their neck having found them hanging to then simply say "win some, lose some".
We don't know the other reasons, if any, why the sikh couple were not chosen. But as usual, they start screaming racism because they feel victimised because something so precious as a childs life didn't go the way they wanted.
Children are not objects. They're sentient beings with real emotions and that seems to be lost on a lot of people. Who knows, perhaps the child on a visit said 'nah, their house smells of curry, I don't like it'.
Once again, the PC brigade seek to politicise something and frankly it really roasts my pelican.
Also, mixed race adoption has reared its head before - but as last time it was a white family wanting to adopt, most people didn't care:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2238075/Ad...
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