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Charlotte Wyatt to go into foster care

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ginmummy · 16/10/2006 06:48

...because, according to the news, her seperated parents can't give her the care that she needs. It so sad, I want to cry. Poor, poor Charlotte, poor, poor parents.

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rust · 17/10/2006 14:30

Socci lets put you on a bed, and feed you by drip and sucktion your airways every hour, lets take you sight and other senses, think about it just for a second....... is it worth living

beckybraAAARGHstraps · 17/10/2006 14:30

It IS relevant, because you are blaming the parents for the choices they have made. I agree that dispassionate choices do need to be made. Here, it was the COURT that made the decision. NOT the parents.

Socci · 17/10/2006 14:30

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saggarmakersbottomknocker · 17/10/2006 14:32

Rust - I'm shocked and speechless.

GreenSepticStumps · 17/10/2006 14:32

There is an unsavoury edge to this cost-driven logic. It reminds me of the people who want the death penalty brought back because they resent paying to feed and house criminals. I always find that much more sinister and abhorrent than the people who want it brought back because they really rabidly hate the criminals and want them dead, IYKWIM. It's a peculiar brand of ultra-capitalist conscious heartlessness which reminds me of pure Thatcherism (which is why I keep teasing kitty about Thatcher) and the cult of the individual (ie the law of the jungle) from whch this country is still recovering.

rust · 17/10/2006 14:33

BUt can you think about it just for a second and tell me what you think don't back away

HappyMumof2 · 17/10/2006 14:34

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Socci · 17/10/2006 14:34

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HauntedsandCastle · 17/10/2006 14:35

I have been watching this unfold, and at first I have to say that I could see where kitty was coming from, the "you faught to save her, now it's up to you to follow through" I even posted words to that effect on another thread.

Before I get flamed, I had read and taken in all of the posts from those of you living with sn. I have no experience of what you are living with and won't even pretend too. I started to realise what some of you were saying, that you would fight to the death for the life of your child, we all would. If dd was badly hurt in an accident (touch wood) I would want her alive and with me, hang the expense, the trials and tribualtions to come.

I actually think that for the Wyatts to realise they can't cope and to have Charlotte fostered is an amazingly difficult thing to do. But they know they can't cope and aren't trying to hide it, they are asking for help, because they know Charlotte deserves so much more, good for them.

Socci, giddy's (and all the other's) posts haven't falen on deaf ears. They have changed my mind today.

fwiw, I don't think it is at all selfish to have further children after having had a child with sn. Regardless of why.

rust · 17/10/2006 14:37

I am not Judging - I am asking you too,

I don't understand why you think she has a right to live........

beckybraAAARGHstraps · 17/10/2006 14:38

HMO2, you THINK that is what you would do, and to be honest, I think I might too, but we don't KNOW do we? Because we have never been there. And I'm looking at dd now and wondering if I could ever 'let her go'. Please God I'll never have to make the decision. But to criticise others who HAVE to do so is beyond me.

Anbd I'll say it again. The courts supported the Wyatts. If they had not, the DNR would have stood. It is NOT just down to them.

GreenSepticStumps · 17/10/2006 14:39

"I don't understand why you think she has a right to live........"

I'm off. I've had enough of this ignorant childish horseshit.

kittythescarygoblin · 17/10/2006 14:40

Shinypurple, I completely concede this point. I think their lives have a bearing on what they post and it is wahy teir take on things IS so different to mine.

SamhainWitch · 17/10/2006 14:40

By rust on Tuesday, 17 October, 2006 2:37:44 PM
I am not Judging - I am asking you too,

I don't understand why you think she has a right to live........

No one has the right to judge. No one has the right to ask. Everyone has the right to live.

Socci · 17/10/2006 14:41

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beckybraAAARGHstraps · 17/10/2006 14:41

I don't have a child with SN kitty, and I disagree with you too.

HappyMumof2 · 17/10/2006 14:42

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saggarmakersbottomknocker · 17/10/2006 14:42

Rust - why do you think she doesn't have the right to live?

kittythescarygoblin · 17/10/2006 14:42

Greeny, I fear that this country will never completely recover from the damage thatTthatcher has done. Different topic entirely I know.

rust · 17/10/2006 14:42

I don't think children should be kept alive for the sake of the parent!!!! if Doctors think that she should be able to slip away in comform, then I think that is the best thing to do, Children who are kept alive in these circumstance have to live with the conserquence

misdee · 17/10/2006 14:42

HMo2, she has been home as well.

i am leaving this arguement.

HappyMumof2 · 17/10/2006 14:43

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misdee · 17/10/2006 14:45

probably.

rust · 17/10/2006 14:45

By SamhainWitch on Tuesday, 17 October, 2006 2:40:26 PM

Why to make the parents feel better - A few people say they could not let there children go, well unless you have had to let a child go - I don't see how you can possibly comment - What is best for Charlotte

HappyMumof2 · 17/10/2006 14:45

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