JUST PHILOSOPHISING ON - SOCIAL WORK AND THE ADOPTION DILEMMA. PART 1.

It is no easy matter caring for your own children. And, not surprisingly, it should be even more difficult caring for other people's children. Especially when the circumstances leading to an individual, couple or family having to take on this challenge, are adverse ones, as they usually are. Such as a child being an orphan, his/or mother or parents being too young and/or lacking in the required skills and capabilities to care for their child or children. Or the child having been the subject of serious actual or potential harm from their parents, requiring them to be safeguarded by being placed with other family members or other non-related alternative carers. It has been known for young people to get pregnant and have children, with the intention being to 'have someone for them to care for', or to love them and help them to feel worthwhile.' It has also been known for young people in Britain, probably more so in the past, to have children, not because they ...