A Tricky One This Who Should Care For This Mixed Race Child?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3181941/White-couple-slam-social-services-mixed-race-adopted-son-taken-away-live-black-aunt-never-met.html

A white married homosexual couple or his black aunt who he has never met?

Should Rotherham Council authorities have focused on the toddlers ethnicity rather than on his best interests?

/// Speaking for the first time, the adopters said they were shocked and hurt by the judge's use of the word 'negroid' to describe the boy, known only as C to protect his anonymity, and they claimed officials from Rotherham Council had acted as if he 'wasn't a
person'. ///

[Old_Geezer]

I don't think race comes into it. The child being of mixed heritage anyway.

The choice was between a less than ideal due to being the same sex couple, who had already created a stable relationship with the child or an actual relative who would entail a removal of the child from a family it was used to.

As you say, not an easy choice, but an actual relative is not easy to trump. I think the relative should have come forward much earlier, before the situation developed.

[douglas9401]

Maybe the amount of money available for bringing him up has only recently become apparent?
I don't know, obviously, but it could be as simple as that.
Maybe even a ploy to sway the father's asylum case, what with baby making seeming to be a bit of a family business between him and his sister.
That would be shocking.

Wouldn't it?

[Svejk]

It's certainly a 21st century problem.

[ladybirder]

I think the child should have been left where he was. Nothing I read about the sister makes me think she will make a good parent. A relative does not equal good parent. He already had two good parents.
When in doubt, do nowt!

[mushroom25]

think you're right douglas - a child would be a huge plus for the fathers article 8 claim for leave to remain.

[jourdain2]

Very difficult. On the facts as given, I feel the boy would have been best left with the couple to whom he was bonding, described officially as 'perfect parents'.

I am also perturbed as to the reaction of the adopters of the use of the word 'negroid'. It's a scientific designation of race isn't it? It makes me wonder if they will bring the child up to feel victimised.

Sad, the whole thing.