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[AndrewT]

I admit I don't know very much about fostering but if the child had to be placed with foster parents in the first place, why is the natural mother having any say in what happens? Surely children are only put up for fostering if the mother is somehow incapable of looking after the child herself.

BTW, be careful of placing such a high emphasis on 'respecting people's religious beliefs' when there are children concerned. It's all well and good people being able to worship freely, but using that religious belief as the basis for making decisions concerning a child leads down some very dangerous paths...

[NoflopsHomer]

Nothing in the article about respecting the religious beliefs of others. Sometimes I wonder if the national media has a more sinister agenda than just shifting more newspapers.

Nope - it's purely economics. The Sun's target audience is the white, working classes. This is the sort of story that appeals to that demographic.

That aren't in Liverpool.

Of course newspapers have agendas! Heck, the Daily Mail was complaining there were too many Jews in Britain in the 1930's...

[AndrewT]

Of course newspapers have agendas! Heck, the Daily Mail was complaining there were too many Jews in Britain in the 1930's...

Newspapers like to think of themselves as 'setting agendas' but that's just not the case any more. Name me one recent major newspaper campaign/agenda which went against what the newspaper would have perceived to be the prevailing public opinion of the day.

Newspapers are all bandwagon jumpers - more so now than ever given they are all haemorrhaging readers.

[The Baron]

Nothing in the article about respecting the religious beliefs of others. Sometimes I wonder if the national media has a more sinister agenda than just shifting more newspapers.

Nope - it's purely economics. The Sun's target audience is the white, working classes. This is the sort of story that appeals to that demographic.

That aren't in Liverpool.

Or anywhere in the north-west.

[ifm]

I'm not a Sun reader as such, more a whatever paper is closest to me in the cafe sort of reader
A lad i work with fosters kids and the 2 that he has had so far have both gone back to their parent(s), i have absolutely no idea what the circumstances of either were but their parents couldn't have been that bad.

[snoopy1239]

I'm not a Sun reader as such, more a whatever paper is closest to me in the cafe sort of reader
A lad i work with fosters kids and the 2 that he has had so far have both gone back to their parent(s), i have absolutely no idea what the circumstances of either were but their parents couldn't have been that bad.

If it's the cafe down IMEX then it's most likely the Sun. 

I don't recall a copy of the Financial Times sitting around anywhere.

[thetank]

I don't recall a copy of the Financial Times sitting around anywhere.

Coz they get snapped up quick 

[AdamM]

Of course newspapers have agendas! Heck, the Daily Mail was complaining there were too many Jews in Britain in the 1930's...

Newspapers like to think of themselves as 'setting agendas' but that's just not the case any more. Name me one recent major newspaper campaign/agenda which went against what the newspaper would have perceived to be the prevailing public opinion of the day.

Newspapers are all bandwagon jumpers - more so now than ever given they are all haemorrhaging readers.

in many ways true Andrew, but the press underlines and adds weight to different sections of societys prejudices. the mail doesn t make you more middle class and uptight but it offers support for the beliefs of the readers. "It's true, I read it in the paper" with respect to our resident man from the current bun I have to say I feel the Sun is guilty of propergating a lot of rather unpleasant characteristics of 'Britishness'

[ifm]

I'm not a Sun reader as such, more a whatever paper is closest to me in the cafe sort of reader
A lad i work with fosters kids and the 2 that he has had so far have both gone back to their parent(s), i have absolutely no idea what the circumstances of either were but their parents couldn't have been that bad.

If it's the cafe down IMEX then it's most likely the Sun. 

I don't recall a copy of the Financial Times sitting around anywhere.

In no particular order  i look for:-

The Sport
The Star
The Sun
erm, i don't think i've ever seen anything else in there either Snoppy

[Nem]

'The Sun'

[Dewi_cool]

I must admit I read the Sun, only the problem page though!

[Sark79]

METRO

[snoopy1239]

I'm not a Sun reader as such, more a whatever paper is closest to me in the cafe sort of reader
A lad i work with fosters kids and the 2 that he has had so far have both gone back to their parent(s), i have absolutely no idea what the circumstances of either were but their parents couldn't have been that bad.

If it's the cafe down IMEX then it's most likely the Sun. 

I don't recall a copy of the Financial Times sitting around anywhere.

In no particular order  i look for:-

The Sport
The Star
The Sun
erm, i don't think i've ever seen anything else in there either Snoppy

lol

And even then you only go for The Star if The Sport has someone's brekkie down it.

[Nem]

And even then you only go for The Star if The Sport has someone's brekkie down it.

That's not someones brekkie

[Poppet7]

There are 6 people in our house, Leons parents, Leons sister, Leon, me and a foster child. 4 out of the 6 people that live here play poker... but the foster child hasn't been taken away! If only...


OK, I know i'm evil but i'm his back-up foster carer whilst Leons mum and dad are on holiday and he has been naughty today - grrrr, lil sh*t! lol