Children’s Bill promotes broken families

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child says that “a child has the right to be cared for by his or her parents and has the right not to be separated from his or her parents”. 

The Convention understood ‘parents’ as the biological progenitors.

Children separated from their biological parents by adoption have been greatly anguished and unhappy, and I stand for not deliberately inflicting the same on more children.

We should not allow or promote the inferior health or welfare of individuals, families or society.

Our compassion for the misfortune of one person — for example, who loses a parent — is not a reason to promote more of the same for others, even though the eventual outcome may be good in many cases.

The Children and Family Relationships Bill will ensure that many more children will be part of a broken family, as we know that the most stable and long-lasting social unit is that of a married man and woman and it provides the best environment for rearing children.

We should be promoting only this type of social unit.

Jim De Groot

Curraheen

Carrigrohane

Co. Cork.