Adoption Outcry , Contact Silence

It is national adoption week in Northern Ireland, nearly 4000 children a year need to find new parents,  this nationally covered social problem is highlighted quite clearly while at the same time the same amount of children each year in Northern Ireland loss contact with their father and extended family through the family law system, that is in place.

The silent plight of children involved in contact cases needs fully addressed in Northern Ireland in the same capacity that adoption needs to be highlighted. Thousands of children are suffering the social, economic and health implication of losing their father based on the very fact that a child has no right in law to see its father.

RFFJ finds it hard to comprehend that such a public outcry is made in terms of adoption while at the same time no outcry is made for contact cases where children and fathers are placed on a judicial timetable for when they are allowed to see one another.

http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/30771

http://www.londonderrysentinel.co.uk/news/Adoptive-parents-needed.5811337.jp

Children In N.Ireland, poverty is twice as bad a mainland UK

In a past media release RFFJ N.I commented on the state of the country in terms of raising a child, given that the UK is low ranking regarding UNICEF, RFFJ stated previously that when N.Ireland is devolved from mainland UK that N.Ireland will be bottom of the table regarding a society in which to raise a child. Once again RFFJ N.I has been proved correct in our objective measurement of society in Northern Ireland.

An area that has been highlighted as a factor is childcare; there are thousands of children in N.Ireland who through the actions of their mothers or by judicial order cannot have contact with their father or extended family. When it comes to child care then half of that child’s extended family who could share in childcare is erased from the scene

CIVITAS in 2002 already highlighted the social effects of fatherless homes as a major factor in social poverty and as of yet no action has been taken to reverse the social, economic and health effects of fatherless homes.

 civitas 2002

News report on poverty