Beyond The Barrio: Couple Forced To Give Up Kids To Adoptive Parents Due To Old Age
28 January 2009, 4:43 PM. By Alex Alvarez
A couple in Scotland is brokenhearted that their grandchildren have been taken for them and handed over to adoptive parents. The couple have apparently been deemed “too old” to care for the children.
At 46 and 59? Whatevs.
The grandparents, who cannot be named, are also uneasy about the fact that their two grandkids, aged 5 and 4, are being put in the care of a gay couple.
The children’s mother is unable to care for them because she’s too busy being addicted to heroin. You make your choices, you know?
Says the children’s grandfather:
You can either accept it, and there’s a chance you’ll see the children twice a year, or you can take that stance and never see them again.
It breaks my heart to think that our grandchildren are being forced to grow up in an environment without a mother figure. We are not prejudiced, but I defy anyone to explain to us how this can be in their best interests.
Sentences beginning with “we are not prejudiced” immediately followed with “but” are often troublesome. But, really… 46 and 59 are too old to care for children?
The case has brought up questions over the level that the government may intervene (interfere?) in family life and has brought debate over gay adoption to the forefront. The authorities who took the children away from their grandparents cite the couple’s age-related health issues - one has angina and the other diabetes - as reason for taking the children from their care.
So… to what extent do health problems impede one’s ability to be a good parent? Diabetes, after all, is easily controlled with medication and diet. Are parents with eating disorders incapable of raising healthy children? People with heart disease? AIDS? If someone is diagnosed with cancer, does that give the government a pass to pull their children out of their home? Damn, yo.
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NOT RIGHT! Not right at all!!!
All children should be removed from their old, worn out, heterosexual parents and given to fabulous gay couples!
One parent with diabetes? Sounds like every Latino family I know.
Could be we don’t have the whole story. The social services folks aren’t allowed to answer back publicly, so this is only one side of the story. I’d be willing to bet “too old” is not the reason they don’t have their grandchildren.
Reguardless if that is it. Raising children in the first place is diffcult, let alone someone who doesnt know the family and doesnt know how they where raised so far is adopting a newborn baby is different they can influence that child to be “just like them” no morals in there life a family member stepped up to the plate that was good enough. To many people are going with this its ok to be gay is it ok to shoot someone? same difference.
I’m surprised that gay couples are allowed to adopt there. Why is it that America is so far behind on these kinds of reforms?!?!
I don’t think sexuality has anything to do with how well you will raise children…neither does your age. However, we must consider the unknown factors in this story. Maybe they were too worn out from dealing with a heroin addicted child to be deemed fully committed to raising such young and needy children?