What is the answer?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/6ebrl4t

http://tinyurl.com/6zw6y4d

Only 70 babies were adopted last year compared with 4,000 in 1976.

With a reluctance for Asian's to adopt, are the adoption authorities then wrong to show a reluctant to allow white couples to adopt children from different ethnic backgrounds?

/// Jean Smith, from the NCH children's charity, said placing children from ethnic minorities with white parents often left them without a sense of cultural and religious identity later in life. ///

Short of them settling in with a family from their own ethnic background, surely the choices left are to stay un-adopted or lead a happy family life with loving white adopted parents even though their cultural and religious identity may be lost?

[sandyRoe]

They are wrong. It is better for a child to grow up in a loving family that to be dragged up 'in care'.

[jno]

I agree. But I notice that story is more than three years old; I don't know if the situation is still the same.

[R1Geezer]

with the ever more stupid reasons to refuse couples wanting to adopt it's a wonder any get adopted at all.

[anotheoldgit]

jno

The main link was dated today, the second link I posted as a back up story.

But comparing the one (as you rightly stated was more than 3 years old), with today's I can not see that anything has changed.

[rov1100]

Anyone would think because you have Muslim parents the child is genetically programmed to follow that faith. What is wrong with a white family adopting a young asian child and bringing it up in either the CofE or Catholic religions?

[hc4361]

There are over 75000 Asian Christians in the UK. Not all Asians are Muslim, Sikh, Hindu. Some Asians are atheist.

Far better for a child to be raised by a family than in care.

[anotheoldgit]

LucyThomas7

/// With a reluctance for Asian's what to adopt? ///

Just because I inadvertently added an apostrophe, why be so nit picky to go to the trouble to point it out? No one else found a need to.