It's the children that are handed life sentences when SS muck up, & they do from time to time. A mistake means that a child is ripped from a loving home to be placed where? We just do not have enough information made available to us in this article to judge whether adoption is the right choice for this child, or a terrible tragedy.
Looked after children are all too often not looked after at all, as numerous scandals from Rochdale to Islington have demonstrated to us all. Indeed a quick glance at the number of children in care who leave school with no qualifications, or that go missing never to be seen again tells it's own tale.
If you are rich, white, married and have the right postcode you are far less likely to endure the dark side of SS, no matter what goes on behind closed doors.
YABU - & I'll reserve ALL my compassion for the baby, who on turning 18 may feel totally robbed of the childhood she should have had. She will at least have the comfort of knowing her Mum did everything possible to hang onto her. I'd do what this mother has done if only to make sure that in later years, my child would never ever feel unwanted by myself. Giving my child that last scrap of reassurance possible for me to do, would mean far more to me than any damn law when confronted with the reality of her loss forever. At that point the opinion of wider society would beyond it's capacity to influence me in anyway shape or form.
Bold 1 - how do you know whether thats because children were taken into care, rather than events leading up to it?
Bold 2 - except put her child's needs above her own and leave an abusive relationship?
Overly simplistic attitude, putting the rights of the mother over those of the child.