The rights of a child...
Is it just me or does everyone think there can be no blanket rules in the protection of children?
Liberal MP Bronwyn Bishop has called for more children of drug addicts to be removed from their parents and adopted out.
Ms Bishop is chairing a parliamentary inquiry into the impact of illicit drug use on Australian families and believes the current system is skewed towards the interests of drug-using parents rather then their children.
It’s tricky, isn’t it? I couldn’t agree more that if children are not safe, they should be removed from their parents care immediately. But is it in the best interests of the child to be permanently separated from their families?
Drug addicts are irresponsible, selfish and (a lot of the time) unfit to care for their children. I have no doubt about that.
But re-hab works, and even irresponsible selfish drug addicts deserve a second chance. Tonight on Andrew Denton’s Enough Rope, Phil Jamieson, lead singer of the Aussie rock group ‘Grinspoon’ talks about his addiction to meth-amphetamine.
Phil is the father of two children and I am sure that he was next to useless to those children at the height of his addiction. However, he’s in recovery now. If his children had been forcibly removed and adopted out, I don’t think that would be the best for anyone.
We should never hesitate to remove children from an unsafe environment. But we must also never forget that every family is unique and they need to be treated that way.
Liberal MP Bronwyn Bishop has called for more children of drug addicts to be removed from their parents and adopted out.
Ms Bishop is chairing a parliamentary inquiry into the impact of illicit drug use on Australian families and believes the current system is skewed towards the interests of drug-using parents rather then their children.
It’s tricky, isn’t it? I couldn’t agree more that if children are not safe, they should be removed from their parents care immediately. But is it in the best interests of the child to be permanently separated from their families?
Drug addicts are irresponsible, selfish and (a lot of the time) unfit to care for their children. I have no doubt about that.
But re-hab works, and even irresponsible selfish drug addicts deserve a second chance. Tonight on Andrew Denton’s Enough Rope, Phil Jamieson, lead singer of the Aussie rock group ‘Grinspoon’ talks about his addiction to meth-amphetamine.
Phil is the father of two children and I am sure that he was next to useless to those children at the height of his addiction. However, he’s in recovery now. If his children had been forcibly removed and adopted out, I don’t think that would be the best for anyone.
We should never hesitate to remove children from an unsafe environment. But we must also never forget that every family is unique and they need to be treated that way.
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