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To wonder why so many people think social services steal babies

159 replies

Abbinob · 14/02/2016 10:51

Recently the local police posted on fb about a young woman who had gone missing with her baby. The baby was in care when she's went missing with him.
Cue a hundred posts of how social services and their secret courts and forced adoptions and 'bonuses' for adoptions etc are to blame and that she had no choice etc.

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DiplomaticBag · 17/03/2018 17:54

the social services are the instrument which the government use to make money from the industry if you look deep enough into it you will find theres lots of money in it e.g social services have a business address registered at companies house why is this? are they a business or are they civil servants ? they cant be both so my suggestion is open your eyes and open your minds do the research and you will see like many others already see yes they do steal babies and children for there own and the governments gain.

Evidence for any of this?

0lgaDaPolga · 17/03/2018 18:46

I think it’s just the awful fear that your children could be taken off you if someone judges you to be a bad parent. I know that’s not how it works but we don’t always think rationally.

I struggled when my baby was born. By the time he was 6 weeks I was almost suicidal. I told everyone that I was happy and fine as I thought my baby, the only thing keeping me going would be taken off me if I admitted how I was actually feeling. I summoned up the courage to go to my gp and she was more concerned about the wellbeing of my baby and whether I was about to harm him that she was about me, despite the fact that I’d not mentioned anything about wanting to harm him. Quite the opposite for me, I was ridiculously overprotective of him.

I eventually self referred for cbt and was diagnosed with ptsd from the birth and am much recovered. I can see now that there was never any chance he would have been taken from me but when I wasn’t myself and wasn’t thinking rationally it was a very real fear for me

Amanduh · 17/03/2018 19:16

I’ve worked with many children who SHOULD have been taken in to care and weren’t. I wish it was that easy!

redexpat · 17/03/2018 19:34

ZOMBIE THREAD

social services have a business address registered at companies house why is this? Can't speak for the UK but here it's so that we can be billed for the services we outsource and the products we buy - weighted blankets, blackout curtains, anything else to assist people with disabilities for example. Also sometimes we provide a service to SS in neighbouring counties, and the business number enables them to pay us.

Falmer · 17/03/2018 21:49

WMD alleged in order to start a war, terrorism then we all accept our rights being curtailed & patted down at airports etc, children such as Baby P being left to suffer even though he had clear physical injuries and seen by many professionals so now we all sort of accept that SS will be removing more children? Think people, think!

crunchymint · 17/03/2018 22:12

I know a woman who had her two kids taken into care. She says the school had a vendetta against her. Even when she talks about it, the issues are clear, but she does not see it.

Itsnotanthrax · 17/03/2018 23:21

We do have to question why a unmarried Mother hands over PR (by putting him on the BC), but then makes claims against him.

How incredibly dense and ignorant. If you are a social worker you need to stop doing that and find another living.
I strongly suggest you ,at the very least, educate yourself on the effects of DV. The very least.

Urubu · 17/03/2018 23:34

I think it is because of the fact that some children that are taken away are then adopted and the bio family then has no chance of getting them back even if it turns out the reason invoked to take them away is later proven to be incorrect.
I know it is just a tiny tiny percentage. But still. I remember a case where the DC where said to be physically abused, flagged by a doctor when they visited A&E for something unrelated and years later they found out it was all due to a rare genetical desease, but they were not allowed to contact their DC anymore as they where settled with a new family. Horrifying.

entropynow · 17/03/2018 23:47

sometimes all they seem to care about is their targets, not the people they are meant to be caring for

They don't have "targets" - statutorily imposed timescales, yes, but as they will be disciplined or sacked for not complying, what do you suggest? So-called adoption targets are sheer myth.

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