Adoption and a case of perverse PC bigotry
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A man and a woman walk into an adoption agency and say they would like
to give a child a home.
'We don't want a black one,' they tell the social worker, 'or one
that's from a poor background, or some kid who hasn't been educated
properly.'
Shocking? Certainly. Disgracefully narrow-minded and racist?
You bet. Yet reverse the details of that story and you have almost
exactly what happened to Gavin and Teresa Allen.
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Gavin Allen with Teresa and Bo
Struggle: Gavin Allen with wife Teresa and adopted daughter Bo, had
trouble adopting because they are a white middle-class couple
Gavin is a BBC executive and Teresa is the director of a recruitment
agency. After going through the anguish of failed fertility treatment,
the Allens said they felt ready to pour all their love and energy into
an adopted family.
Until, that is, they came up against the rude, patronising, costly,
dumb, demoralising and downright discriminatory process that is
adoption in Britain today.
All that Gavin and Teresa had to offer a child was financial security,
kindness, consistency, fun, stimulation, a spacious home and a strong
network of relatives and friends.
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As they soon discovered, none of that counts. If, like them, you are
white and earn a decent living, then the adoption authorities put you
at the bottom of the pile.
Never mind that there are 80,000 youngsters in desperate need of a
home.
Never mind that boys and girls, whatever their race, might be grateful
to have a mum and dad, even ones with the appalling handicap of being
' privileged' pale people living in a nice house.
Camden Social Services made it clear that the Allens were the wrong
ethnic background, even to adopt kids who were only a quarter
Caribbean or wholly Irish.
In an adoption magazine, Gavin and Teresa saw the same small
heartbreaking faces advertised again and again, but their inquiries
were ignored.
As Gavin told the Mail on Sunday, one social services director said he
would rather a black child be brought up in the care system than in a
white family.
You can bet that if that prejudice was expressed the other way round,
the offender would end up in court on a charge of racial hatred.
But white middle-class couples are meant to take such offensive
stupidity lying down.
Why the hell should they? By now, even the most pot-addled excuse for
a social worker must be aware of the long-term cost to our society of
unloved children.
A huge pro****tion of them end up without qualifications, on drugs or
on the streets. A staggering third of this country's homeless people
were raised in care.
Yet our adoption system, poisoned by an extremist interpretation of
multiculturalism and an outdated class resentment, prefers to keep
needy kids away from nice couples like Gavin and Teresa, who at least
have a chance of making a better life for them.
There is a bizarre double-standard at work here.
Every other day seems to bring yet another case of surreally awful
child neglect.
Children can grow up with the most appalling parents, and the social
services seldom interfere.
Yet people like the Allens are rejected as carers for some of the most
vulnerable children of all. It makes you want to weep.
Most couples hoping to adopt are too scared of losing their chance of
success to speak out.
Bravely, the Allens have condemned their treatment and called for
change.
They're right. More light needs to be shone into the shadowy world of
adoption, which too often is supervised by crazy bureaucrats who put
ideology before humanity.
In frustration and despair, Gavin and Teresa ended up adopting a
beautiful baby from China.
Bo Allen is a lucky little girl. She is also proof that inter-racial
adoption can lead to a wonderfully happy family.
The Allens are no fools. They knew how challenging such an adoption
might be.
They just happen to believe that it is better for a child to be
claimed by a family, however inexact the match, than to be abandoned
for ever in the left-luggage department of life.
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