The local authority searched around for more ammunition that they
could use against this mother. This
digging finally went to the past, a past that was over thirty five years old.
Can anyone honestly say that they are the same person as they were thirty years
ago? In this case the mother certainly was not because that past went back to
when she was three years old. What happened to her at that age was pushed to
the forefront and she was asked to explain it. Explain what exactly? Explain
something she had no control over. Explain it to people she had only just met,
who had no understanding of what they were asking or the damage their question
could have done. This incident shows the low mentality of the people that she
was dealing with. Using the past like this against anyone deprives the victim,
and victim this mother has become yet again, of the ability to live in the
present. It causes the suppression of genuine emotions and forces the subject, for
that is what this mother is considered to be, a subject, an object, not a human
being. It was an attempt to shut her off from the experience of embracing the
present. It was a past the mother had fought for years to understand and learned
to cope with. A fight that was successful thanks to a professional
psychotherapist who worked with her to bring her out of the darkness into a
place of safety. The local authority marched in with their jackboots and tried
to trample her efforts into the ground. There was no attempt by the local
authority to look further than the end of their collective noses. Noses that
were in my opinion stuck where the sun does not shine.
In this case it was the baby involved who threw her own unexpected spanner
into the works of the local authority. The authority had early on decided that this
baby would be one ripe for adoption. She would be easy to place; in the words
of one social worker to the grandmother “we
have loads of people who will adopt her”. Behind this statement there is
more than meets the eye. Here we start to see the true reason of the local
authority involvement. It is not about the protection of the child. It is the
rush of the local authority to meet adoption targets. Targets that they and many
in Government constantly deny exist.
The baby suffered some setbacks when she was born. Several concerns
were indicated even before the birth. These were indicators that not all was
well. The mother was in a position where she had to decide if she wished to
carry the pregnancy to term. It was at this point she showed a determination
that no matter what the problems may be she would see her daughter born.
The concerns shown in various prenatal scans appeared at first to be
unfounded at birth. Twelve hours later the specter of the previous fears arose
and her daughter had to be transferred to the Special Baby Unit. The baby could
not feed correctly. Eventually the baby was transferred to another hospital and
was diagnosed with a complaint which is not rare but is uncommon and can be
reasonably treated by medicine and diet. After another period in hospital she
was eventually allowed home. What happened in the period between hospital and
being allowed home is what gives great cause for concern.
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