Thread: No Fostering.
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Old 03-11-2008, 22:03   #40
Studio25
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Re: No Fostering.

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Originally Posted by jambutty View Post
Not if you are a smoker that is.

Redbridge Council in London is planning to prevent smokers from fostering children under 5 and disabled children with breathing difficulties...
Are you sure it's the only reason, and not just one of the reasons?

A kid in Derbyshire has been taken into care and one of the reasons cited was he'd been allowed to become obese. The headline makes it sound like his weight was the deciding factor, but the other reasons haven't picked up on by the press presumably because they are the same as every other kid who ends up in care and therefore aren't very "newsworthy".

I'm not passing opinion on the suitability of smokers as fosters. I've never smoked, so my opinion is bound to be biased...
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