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BY RICHARD LAYCOCK
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When two foster parents dressed their little boy in women’s clothing-- social services stepped in. The same-sex couple had been caring for the 6-year-old boy for two years.
“One of the women was preparing for a sex change to become a man at the time, while her girlfriend was undergoing fertility treatment.”
The couple posted pictures of the dress-up on Facebook and since then --the child has been removed from the couple’s care. News.com reports the Australian Families Minister has called for an explanation from Bernardo’s -- the child welfare service which recruited the couple.
“I am seeking advice from Barnardos to confirm that care arrangements were appropriate and the wellbeing of the children was paramount...”
But the decision to remove the child from the home has sparked a range of responses. The Daily Mail reports...
“...one supporter of the lesbian couple said the insinuation appeared to be that simply placing the children with a lesbian couple was the problem and that the foster care agency should have known that any woman crazy enough to be a lesbian was likely to 'humiliate' a child.”
And a blogger for Australia’s Crikey.com has similar questions…
“Do [Australian Family officials] call for full inquiries into every foster care arrangement that goes wrong? What was so special about this one? Was it anything more than the words ‘lesbian’, ‘fertility treatment’ and ‘sex-change’?”
The couple wants to adopt the boy. Before this incident, his birth mother tried to win back custody of her son but the Supreme Court denied it based on multiple reports of mental and physical abuse.
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