We need to rethink adoption in the social media age, says senior judge
by Owen Bowcott, Guardian:
Too many children are being forcibly adopted against the wishes of their families and prevented from having any contact with their natural parents, a senior judge has suggested.
In the era of social media and with children being removed from problem homes at ever older ages, Lord Justice McFarlane argued, it may no longer be practicable or beneficial to create an “impermeable seal” around an adoptive home.
His comments, although posed in the form of questions, are a challenge to current family justice policies and the dominant presumption, particularly since the Baby P scandal, that more children should be taken out of homes where they may be exposed to violence.
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