Another Blemish for the UK Foster Care System

Here is an interesting point of view from the UK regarding the adoption and fostering of children in state care.

It is apparently better for a child to "get no school qualifications and go on to lead lives of unemployment, drug addiction, crime and prostitution" than to be adopted outside of their ethnic category.

From the Daily Mail Online:

The Bristol University researchers said that of 50 ethnic minority children whose adoption cases it followed, only 13 actually found new parents due to the insistence on 'same race placements'.

In one case a nurse offered to adopt an ethnically mixed child with severe disabilities. She was turned down because she could not meet the 'Polish element' in the child's ethnicity. The child remained in state care.

Children who are adopted do much better than children left in the state care system, where most get no school qualifications and go on to lives of unemployment, drug addiction, crime and prostitution. The report is to be published in full later this summer.

Its disclosure comes after last week's row over the state-funded British Association for Adoption and Fostering's guide for gay couples. It referred to opponents of gay adoption as 'retarded homophobes' who 'need an excuse to whinge'. It later apologised.`

BAAF remains one of the greatest advocates of applying race rules to adoption. But the Bristol report said this results in regular attempts at the deliberate destruction of foster families in which parents and children have formed a bond.

It is sad to see the welfare of children being placed lower on the priorities list than the political ideology of social manipulators and bureaucrats.