The part that p!sses me off about cases like this is the stance social services have on people like her.
A number of years ago, my then wife and I looked seriously into adoption, and the number of hoops we had to jump through was unbelievable. Legal, financial, childcare experience, the process was interminable. I honestly don't object to that, because I think people who have children should be responsible for them (a novel concept to my generation it seems).
The flip side of this coin is that social services seem to do everything they can to avoid taking children away from the most useless, breakless, slovenly or frankly dangerous people. This scumbag is just such a case in point. How can someone with a 'history of abandonment' and not even a place to live be deemed fit to keep looking after a child?!
I sincerely hope Head roll over this, but I bloody doubt it.
