The laws of adoption
Once again, I found yet another piece to the corrupt puzzle of adoption. In the UK, where adoption targets are aplenty, there are laws that make it easy to break-up families.
The Adoption and Children Act 2002 does not require a local authority or other adoption agency to consult the father or extended family of a child put up for adoption by its mother. This was the ruling of the Appeal Court in a case involving a mother who wished to give birth without the knowledge of her family or the baby’s father.
In this case, the pregnancy arose from a one night stand. The mother did not want the father, or her own family, to know about the pregnancy and wished to put the child up for adoption at birth. As a consequence of a County Court judge’s ruling, the authority wrote to the mother’s parents, which led to them finding out about their grandchild.
Relying on the Adoption and Children Act 2002, the Court of Appeal held that when a decision needed to be made about the long-term care of a child whom the mother wished to be adopted, there was no duty of an absolute kind to make inquiries. There was only a duty to make inquiries if it was in the interests of the child to do so.
It was further held that the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights concerning a father’s right to respect for his family life did not apply in this case. The father had no family life with the child. He had never lived with the mother nor expressed any commitment to the child, because he was unaware of the child’s existence. http://www.duncanlewis.co.uk/adoption-agency-need-not-consult-father.htm
Is it any wonder how/why pregnancy is seen by some families as a crisis-situation?
If women don't know who is getting them pregnant, and parents are urging the adoption-option, how are unwed mothers and sperm-dropping fathers going to learn how to keep a family?
Considering the U.S. has adoption agencies/maternity homes like Gladney, I hardly think the term "family values" applies to either of our more advanced "civilized" countries.
In terms of Right to Life, I'd like to know if QUALITY has any meaning to anyone in the USA or UK.
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family values
For me "family values" stopped having a meaning when the term was annexed to serve a singular ideological agenda, in which the only family worthy of being called a Family consists of a man as head of the family, his wife as ever loving and all sacrificing side-kick and a bunch of children all born within wedlock and brought up in a God fearing environment. That's the Procrustes Bed the Right to Lifers seem to offer as the only possibility to serve the best interest of a child, everything else is wrong.
It's exactly that mentality that makes women not wanting their families to know, because it will cause shame and punishment. The child's best interest is a joke, at best it is an afterthought, but most of it is spin to propagate the interests of an industry and politicians that find it easier to manipulate a homogeneous mass than to actually work with the multitude of differences to create a better world for all.