Taking her baby away

Betty · 09-05-2007, 06:44 AM

This is just outrageous! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...6/nbaby126.xml

[quotej]A pregnant woman has been told that her baby will be taken from her at birth because she is deemed capable of "emotional abuse", even though psychiatrists treating her say there is no evidence to suggest that she will harm her child in any way.

Social services' recommendation that the baby should be taken from Fran Lyon, a 22-year-old charity worker who has five A-levels and a degree in neuroscience, was based in part on a letter from a paediatrician she has never met.

...The case adds to growing concern, highlighted in a series of articles in The Sunday Telegraph, over a huge rise in the number of babies under a year old being taken from parents. The figure was 2,000 last year, three times the number 10 years ago.

Critics say councils are taking more babies from parents to help them meet adoption "targets".

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Based on abuse and a rape when she was a child, they deem that enough to take her baby?!

CoasterMatt · 09-05-2007, 07:10 AM

Minority Report?

3894 · 09-05-2007, 07:16 AM

Do we have any social workers at LoT? I'd be interested to hear if this could/does happen in the U.S.

Nephythys · 09-05-2007, 07:17 AM

wow-

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A recording of social workers threatening to take a newborn into care has been removed from the YouTube website after Calderdale Council in West Yorkshire started legal action, claiming the Data Protection Act was breached.

Vanessa Brookes, 34, taped social workers telling her and her husband that they would seek to place the baby, due next month, in care, while admitting there was "no immediate risk to the child."

That's horrifying- like sci-fi engineered society scary.

RStar · 09-05-2007, 09:15 AM

Unbeliveable! It's stuff like this that makes you worry just to even spank your child. Which could explain why there are so many kids out of controll out there.....

Morrigoon · 09-05-2007, 09:22 AM

Hmmm.... sounds like someone needs to take a little trippy-trip across the pond.

Kevy Baby · 09-05-2007, 10:08 AM

If they start taking babies away from parents because of the possibility of abuse, there will be no children left with birth parents anywhere. EVERY parent has the potential of abusing their children.

ozron · 09-05-2007, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

Minority Report?

Moving toward Handmaid's Tale.

BarTopDancer · 09-05-2007, 10:14 AM

That's scary.

Why would a country have "adoption targets" anyways?

Morrigoon · 09-05-2007, 10:16 AM

Well, according to the article, it was about getting kids out of foster care and into permanent homes. But that doesn't seem to be how it's shaping up.

09-05-2007, 06:44 AM	#1
Betty Kicking up my heels! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Silver State Posts: 3,783	Taking her baby away This is just outrageous! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...6/nbaby126.xml [quotej]A pregnant woman has been told that her baby will be taken from her at birth because she is deemed capable of "emotional abuse", even though psychiatrists treating her say there is no evidence to suggest that she will harm her child in any way. Social services' recommendation that the baby should be taken from Fran Lyon, a 22-year-old charity worker who has five A-levels and a degree in neuroscience, was based in part on a letter from a paediatrician she has never met. ...The case adds to growing concern, highlighted in a series of articles in The Sunday Telegraph, over a huge rise in the number of babies under a year old being taken from parents. The figure was 2,000 last year, three times the number 10 years ago. Critics say councils are taking more babies from parents to help them meet adoption "targets". [/quote] Based on abuse and a rape when she was a child, they deem that enough to take her baby?! __________________ Nee Stell Thue
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Kevy Baby Chowder Head Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Yes Posts: 18,500	If they start taking babies away from parents because of the possibility of abuse, there will be no children left with birth parents anywhere. EVERY parent has the potential of abusing their children. __________________ The thing about quotes on the internet is that you cannot verify their validity. - Abraham Lincoln
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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	Well, according to the article, it was about getting kids out of foster care and into permanent homes. But that doesn't seem to be how it's shaping up. __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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