Somalis demonstrating last year outside the South African Embassy in London
The adoption by white lesbians of a girl from the Muslim Somali community has been halted after protests.
The three-year-old was due to be handed over by Harrow Borough Council but a week of protests have left the Council with no alternative but to put the adoption on hold.
More than 50 women from the Somali community demonstrated outside the headquarters of Harrow Council to protest against the decision and urge the local authority to reconsider the adoption.
Tory-controlled Harrow say the girl and two older siblings were ‘taken into care’ after they decided the children’s mother had ‘mental health problems’. In a cultural context, children of a mother who could not cope would always be taken in by relatives, but despite offers from the family, Harrow told the child’s mother by letter that there were no Muslim Somali adopters available.
According to the Daily Mirror, a family member named Ibrahim told the Sunday Times they want the little girl to be brought up by a family who share their religious and ethnic background.
He claims four blood relatives on the mother’s side were willing to adopt the toddler but were turned down.
A spokesman for Harrow Council said: “Adoption decisions are taken after lengthy and extremely thorough consideration of what is in the child’s best interests.”
Ministers have said they want adoptions to be carried out more quickly and preferences that children should be placed in similar racial or cultural environments to be swept aside. Ofsted has introduced (in 2012) a new target for speed in adoptions. But as more and more adoptions are done against the wishes of parents, and at a time when cases where children have been taken into care wrongly are increasing, speed will inevitably lead to injustice.
(When adoptions are carried out against parents’ wishes the children are euphemistically ordered by the court to be ‘freed for adoption’.)
The 2002 Adoption Act allowed same-sex couples to adopt and that in turn has led to complaints from biological relatives of adopted children.
In 2009, one mother in Scotland went public when her children were placed with homosexuals after an offer to adopt from their grandparents was turned down. Councils have been receiving as many as 50% of their applications to be considered as adoptive parents from pairs of homosexuals.
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