Adapt and adopt

From The Daily Mail:

Most people would be barred from adopting their own children because of the rules imposed by social workers, the head of a children’s charity said yesterday.

Anne Marie Carrie, of Barnardo’s, said couples coming forward to adopt were treated with ‘enormous suspicion’ and their treatment was a tragedy both for them and the children left languishing in state care...

Earlier this year Children’s Minister Tim Loughton said the apartheid-style race rules that have long prevented couples adopting a child of a different ethnic background would be swept away.

But social workers still insist on extensive home trials of would-be parents and exhaustive examinations of both their parenting skills and their attitudes and thinking. Middle-class couples regularly complain that they are effectively bullied out of trying to adopt.

I only know one couple who ever tried to adopt (they are mixed-race, if I'm still allowed to say that, and the nicest and most middle of the road couple you can imagine, with a perfectly well brought up little lad) and after a few years of being humilitated, they just gave up.

Barnardo's is a fakecharity of course, and a year ago they were saying exactly the opposite to what they are saying now, but hey.