From the dept. of "I'm sure they mean well"

[mirrorshard]

From today's Observer:

Last year my wife, already buried up to her neck in the business of raising our four children, tried to persuade a local agency to consider us as foster parents. She was told, almost sniffily, that this would be impossible because we did not have a spare room. The woman at the other end of the phone was also concerned that there were too many young children in the house. We were amazed that our admittedly chaotic but nevertheless loving home, overlooking the Weald of Kent and crammed with youngsters, could be seen as an unsuitable place for a vulnerable and wounded child.

What kind of crack-addled half-witted prating fool would even consider trying to foster a 'vulnerable and wounded child' without being able to give them their own safe space, let alone dumping them straight into the company of four strange children they can't get away from?

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[shuripentu.livejournal.com]

Or what if the foster child has been, say, physically or sexually abused by their parents, and turns on the biological children of the foster parents once they're there? I suspect Mr and Mrs We're Nice People So We Ought To Be Able To Do Stuff With No Checks Or Training hadn't considered that possibility...