shanshee_allures
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What da ya think of this?
Nov 13, 2008, 16:49
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Many councils (ours now included) are outright barring people who smoke from adopting children under the age of five.
If they want to, they've got to either not smoke or have given up for at least a year.
We don't smoke, I hate the bloody stuff etc. but for it to make sense surely that ought to be stretched to *all* kiddies not just adopted ones?
And we hear constantly that the care system is overstretched etc so aren't these just more forgotten children being denied the chance of a proper loving home?
The only 'reasoning' I can imagine might've came about is that anyone who wants to adopt and is serious will committ themselves to giving up, but I think that's not even part of the reasoning. I don't actually think
there is any.
All the people I know who smoke and have children don't treat them like lab beagles with it.
:-/
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Merrick
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Re: What da ya think of this?
Nov 13, 2008, 17:07
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Whilst they may not treat their kids like lab beagles, nonetheless the figures for smoker conditions in kids from smoker homes speak for themselves.
also, smoking around them normalises it as an activity, so unsurprisingly kids from smoker homes are more likely to become smokers themselves.
That, I'd guess, is the reasoning.
but fuck me, the damage of passive smoking versus the damage of growing up in care, the damage of knowing that you are unloved and unwanted by that whole fucking society outside the gate?
As an instant, uninformed response, I'd say that this should only be a blanket-ban issue if we had a surplus of potential adopters and all adoptee care homes were empty.
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shanshee_allures
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Re: What da ya think of this?
Nov 13, 2008, 17:17
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Yes, but why not ban anyone who smokes from procreating at all?
Because they can't!
This is something they just 'can' do.
I feel heart sorry for kids who are forced to breathe in smoke at all, donlt get me wrong.
I know this is maybe intended to go some way to ensuring some children are 'healthier', but just say those parents go off to work and leave the child in the care of a relative who does smoke?
Ban that?
Then what?
A half baked idea that as you say denies many children a chance they so dearly need.
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