To think that there should be a lot more support offered for parents who lose their children through social services?

[FedupofbeingtoldIcantusemyname]

I've seen many articles about the fact that quite often parents who lose their children through social services (adoption) will go on to have more and more children, who are usually then removed again. This means the whole cycle goes on and on and more and more children end up in the care system.

I can understand this is often due to the parents trying to replace what they have lost, many of them may have either diagnosed or undiagnosed mental health problems that might have caused them to struggle with parenting in the first place.

IME, social services don't offer enough, or any, support to stop this cycle from being repeated over and over, parents have their children taken and then just left with no thought to what happens next.

I know that their focus is the children, as it should be, and that they have limited resources but Aibu to think that something should be done to help these parents rather than just removing any more children they have?

Bit baffled there.

Maybe they mixed you up with another poster MrsDeVere, though the relevant post/ poster doesn't leap out at me.

gonetoseeamanaboutadog

Yes, like Ben Butler, I suppose. Another case where the media jumped on the "SS steal kids" line and turned out to be gravely mistaken.

Sorry, Mrs DeVere, I had mixed you up. It's gonetoseeaman who claimed that children were being removed from homes for living in council houses.

That was a tragedy. But sadly, making a mistake in not removing doesn't mean mistakes aren't made the other way too. SS were also restrained by the court verdict in that instance.