Sunday, 30 August 2015

CYF GIVE MARRIED COUPLE'S CHILDREN TO SINGLE PARENT OF DIFFERENT ETHNICITY (Letter to Dom Post, August 28)

 
Children’s Commissioner Russell Wills might be interested in three small Pakeha/Indian children taken by CYF from married parents because the elderly father had an historical conviction for sex abuse, and following a disastrous triple pregnancy when she lost two children in utero, the mother was very unwell.  

Those children were handed over to a single parent, a Maori. Two years on, the parents are still fighting to get their children back. They struggle to contain their grief over their lost little ones, who present at their pitifully infrequent access visits as hungry, inadequately dressed, and uncared for. 

I wonder if CYF would dare to place Maori children of loving, married parents in the care of a single, Indian mother. The whole saga reeks of prejudice and discrimination based on both age and race.

 

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