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  Even if prudence teaches us that, after we have reached a certain age, we should begin to err on the side of caution, we should live a day, a month, a year at a time. The current and more pressing concern I have for my dear mother's welfare, pertains to her increasing tendency to fall, slide out of her bed and finding herself on her floor, without being able to get up on her own.  More than ever, these incidences raise questions about my dear mother's living conditions. Her living on her own. Her living independently.  Questions about balancing the advantages and disadvantages of living more safely but with less independence, less freedom. Of living in your own apartment versus living in a care or nursing home. There are, of course, other things which has to be balanced when we make decisions about a vulnerable person living in their own home, or in a care home.  Decisions such as being able to wear your own clothes and the kind of clothes you want to wear.  Decisions such as

  This was a period in his life when Kazaliwa was still struggling big time, as it were, with maintaining relationship.  A time when he would make decisions in anger, as it were, without giving any consideration to the the consequences of the decisions he was making.  Or considering it but then acting on impulse or giving way to his feelings. As he did on that fateful day when he went out with the sales team somewhere in Leicestershire.   Had a very heated disagreement with his boss and decided that he was leaving the job then and there.  Not only was it a case of him leaving the job on the spot.  But there was also the major obstacle of how was he going to get back home.   As the rest of the team needed to continue knocking on doors to make their money for the day?  With Kazaliwa, at that point in his life's journey, not thinking it unreasonable for him to insist that the manager takes him home or make arrangement for him to get home.  There was the potential for the altercation b

  The local authority and/or other adoption agencies should also take care to avoid placing an unreasonable, and, probably critical burden on prospective and actual adoptors.  Such as around who should have contact with their adopted child, the nature and frequency of the contact, and how it is managed.  Where they have in fact placed an unreasonable burden on the adoptive family.   Probably arguing that face-to-face contact is in the child's best interest, even though it places the security and stability of the adoption at risk.   It is, of course, only fair that the local authority and/or adoption agencies should put their hands up, and accept their responsibility, in cases where those risks have materialised and adversely impact the lives of the adoptive child and family. It will probably always be the case that, when parents and carers  harm or take their children's lives. Local authorities are going to be accused and condemned for 'not having done anything', or