To think only 3 of the 15 migrant children look under 18

[AmyMiller]

www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3843900/amp/First-migrant-children-arrive-UK-Calais-French-prepare-raze-Jungle-camp-ground.html?client=safari

This is so ridiculous, many of them look around 25.

The ones who were on tv HAVE family in the UK, it as clearly stated that on the news, so they will be placed with family members, not foster homes.

Where are all girls ? That is what most people are wondering, me included!

No, I think they look like they are in the right age range.

I have male cousins of this age and they look very similar.

Heaven forbid anyone we love should ever be in this situation and be judged like this. Unsurprised to find that this comes from the Daily Fail.

None of these young men are being put in foster care, they're all going to live with their families in the UK.

I think we've got a disablism problem on MN but then the refugee threads remind me that racism is just as popular.

The girls don't come on their own. Presumebly the families send the boys so they can get asylum and bring the girls over?

They all looked a lot older.

YANBU at all, op. The thought of 25+ men ending up in schools with our children because they're claiming to be 15 is bloody terrifying.

It is not racist to say if someone looks older or younger than claimed...

In fact my job and many others depend on just that. And funnily enough it applies to everyone... we would ask and have asked people from every ethnicity.

I'm confused - isn't the guy with the receding hairline collecting his younger brother from the coach? He's already settled here isn't he?

I'm glad that they are being put with family here. Still feel very uneasy about how invisible females are.

Had a 26 year old in my class of Year 11s once... True story.

the Daily Mail will be using the most unflattering pics they have that make them look as old as possible

The same thought occurred to me, but what I really want to know is whether (and how) ages are being checked before these folk are admitted. Come to think of it, the same goes for claims about having family living here

I very much hope the various agencies aren't just taking someone's word for it ...

Desperation will make people do radical things.

I volunteer with asylum seekers in the North West, mainly with women. One in particular was gang raped and made pregnant on her way here by traffickers. This is why young girls/women are not sent off on their own in the same numbers as boys/men.

They look like teenage boys. Middle eastern kids do often look more mature than their European counterparts- believe me I know- parents working for UN in Lebanon.

As for the comment on lack of girls- many would not have been sent on their own as parents would be more likely to think the boys would be safer travelling the journey.

I hope they are accepted into society- some of them must have been through the most hellish teenage years.

1. Where are all the female children?/teens?
2. The article says the ones that came today came to be reunited with family!! They would've come anyways,they are not taking places from anyone etc.

Tbf, the guardian is using the same pictures...

Nobody is saying they don't understand why more men make long journeys than women.

But we should take that into account and take vulnerable people left behind in Turkey.

A supply teacher at school ordered my 12 year old son out of the classroom insisting he was a sixth former taking the mick! Appearances can be deceptive.

All these threads show is how wafer thin women's rights are.

People care about women and girls until there's any kind of crisis, then it is literally every man for himself.

Quite almond and i find it annoying that people are too busy with their right-on virtue signalling to look at the bigger picture, that grown men (and sorry but you're bloody deluded to think otherwise) could be in schools or care homes with young children. I am not denying they've had a horrific experience but I can't help but think there are more vulnerable people (such as real children) and if we have spaces it should be needs assessed more stringently.

If that makes me a bigot then meh

Spot on Pinky Couldn't have put it better.

ages are easy to check, by taking an x-ray of the wrists.

The growth plates will indicate age, with a margin of error for 1 year, I think.

I had this done when I was 15 to assess whether I had stopped growing.

The UK is not the sort of country where they'd make people take age tests though.

Totally agree Pinky.

I would like to think that there are stringent, independent medical checks to ensure that those men/boys coming into the UK are the age they claim to be though.

I'm sure this has already been said, but this picture was in the Daily Mail. Not the most migrant-friendly rag around.

Let's hope we don't have to read many more stories like this one

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3327975/Case-against-Syrian-refugees-accused-gang-raping-teenage-girl-descends-chaos-argue-wail-dock.html

Not all 17 year old refugees are lovely fluffy bunnies. Many are from extremely misogynistic cultures where women are treated appallingly.

There was another gang rape in Kent this week, identities withheld.

Bitofacow - are you seriously saying you truly believe every 'boy' in those photos are under age of 17?

Oops, sorry twogoats! Missed your post.