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anotheoldgit | 14:11 Sat 22nd Jan 2011 | News
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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?
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They are wrong. It is better for a child to grow up in a loving family that to be dragged up 'in care'.
I agree. But I notice that story is more than three years old; I don't know if the situation is still the same.
with the ever more stupid reasons to refuse couples wanting to adopt it's a wonder any get adopted at all.
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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.
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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?
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.
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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.

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