Did anyone else watch this programme last night? It followed a series of routine cases through the system from one set of parents giving their children up, to various stages of others in the half-way house of fostering and/or full adoption.
It was a balanced programme and did not point an accusatory finger at anyone or anything...the biological parents were generally useless and unable to look after their kids, for various reasons, as opposed to evil. It was more the system that was highlighted. It was depressing at times. I had tears in my eyes when Keiren (the little lad in specs with 130 books in his room) was recalling the different houses he had stayed at and had to keep whiping his eyes. He deserves as lot lot better.
I hope Conor gets to stay with his new family and the biological mother's challenge fails.
Sadly, adoption figures are at their lowest for a decade.
It was a balanced programme and did not point an accusatory finger at anyone or anything...the biological parents were generally useless and unable to look after their kids, for various reasons, as opposed to evil. It was more the system that was highlighted. It was depressing at times. I had tears in my eyes when Keiren (the little lad in specs with 130 books in his room) was recalling the different houses he had stayed at and had to keep whiping his eyes. He deserves as lot lot better.
I hope Conor gets to stay with his new family and the biological mother's challenge fails.
Sadly, adoption figures are at their lowest for a decade.