{"id":682,"date":"2007-04-10T12:58:24","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T12:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=682"},"modified":"2007-04-11T09:01:38","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T09:01:38","slug":"what-do-you-call-an-unsuitable-parent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"What do you call an unsuitable parent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.co.uk\/news\/url?sa=t&amp;ct=uk\/2-0&amp;fp=461b98831a4c39cd&amp;ei=zIYbRtTpFaSmogP71vGpCQ&amp;url=http%3A\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml%3Fxml%3D\/news\/2007\/04\/04\/nadopt04.xml&amp;cid=0\">Fatima<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A former nanny says she has been refused permission to adopt a child because she is overweight.<\/p>\n<p>Gillian Vose, 42, said social services rejected her application because her weight &#8211; she weighs 20 stone (127kg) and is 5ft 3ins (1.6m) tall &#8211; meant she would not be able to cope with the child concerned.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Telegraph<\/p>\n<p>This a person with plenty of experience of looking after children and she would have been able to adopt the child if it weren&#8217;t for her &#8216;mobility problem&#8217; &#8211; presumably being mobile enough to attend the interview doesn&#8217;t count. Looks like the beginning of the end for anyone wishing to adopt and doesn&#8217;t have optimal height\/mass ratio, a winning smile, flowing blonde hair, bright blue eyes and strong Aryan features.<\/p>\n<p>ADD:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been pointed out quite rightly that a person has no fundamental &#8216;right to adopt&#8217;, however Local Authorities such as these can remove children from their blood parents, I see it only as a matter of degree from imposing &#8216;fitness&#8217; criteria solely on potential adoptive parents and extending it to challenge the ability of blood parents to bring up a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatima A former nanny says she has been refused permission to adopt a child because she is overweight. Gillian Vose, 42, said social services rejected her application because her weight &#8211; she weighs 20 stone (127kg) and is 5ft 3ins (1.6m) tall &#8211; meant she would not be able to cope with the child concerned. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}