Summary
A MAN and a woman walk into an adoption agency and say they would like to give a child a home. 'We don't want a black one,' they tell the social worker, 'or one that's from a poor background, or some kid who hasn't been educated properly.' Shocking? Certainly. Disgracefully narrow-minded and racist? You bet. Yet reverse the details of that story and you have almost exactly what happened to Gavin and Teresa Allen.
Gavin is a BBC executive and Teresa is the director of a recruitment agency.See the full content of this document
Extract
Adoption and a Case of Perverse Pc Bigotry
After going through the anguish of failed fertility treatment, the Allens said they felt ready to pour all their love and energy into an adopted family.
Until, that is, they came up against the rude, patronising, costly, dumb, demoralising and downright discriminatory process that is adoption in Britain today.All that Gavin and Teresa had to offer a child was financial security, kindness, consistency, fun, stimulation, a spa...See the full content of this document
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