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Re: Choices.
My PC is feeling slightly better so I'll tell you of my own personal experience when it comes to fostering/adoption.
My late first husband and I had put ourselves forward as prospective foster parents at a time when there was a campaign going on to recruit more foster parents. We had friends who had adopted children and another whose sons had been fostered, one by a very lovely couple and one by a rather strange single woman which in itself seemed odd to me at the time.
When we spoke to the fostering people they asked us if we had looked at the possibility of adoption also as there were many children in care who were in need of loving families. In fact they were looking for experienced parents for twin boys whose own parents had split up and whose mother was terminally ill.
The boys were blond haired and blue-eyed. They were beautiful. Their mother was English and to all intents and purposes it was presumed that their father had also been English but on further investigation they found out that the father's GRANDMOTHER was African. Now these boys had never even known their father let alone his grandmother and considering they were blond with blue eyes and had been living with a white mother they had no experience of any "black culture" but we were deemed of incorrect racial origin to foster/adopt them. The boys went back "into care" and we were actively discouraged from raising the hopes of any other children as we were "too white and English" for most of their requirements! We were so disgusted that we walked away.
We saw those boys later still pictured in a "parents needed" newspaper along with others where the parents required were supposed to be of various racial mixes including ne where one parent was an Arab and the other set of grandparents were a non-practising Christian and a Jew! Now what are the chances of finding that kind of mix?!
Whether or not I agree with Mr. Greening here is beside the point. He has every right to his opinion just as the others have a right to theirs. He was willing to abstain rather than vote against something he disagreed with and yet it seems that was not acceptable. I wonder how long it will be before the PC brigade is tlling us which way to vote in an election and making voting compulsory?
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