Is There a "Better" Way To Place Babies for Adoption?

Is There a "Better" Way To Place Babies for Adoption?

England is having a moment of examining its system of child welfare, prompted (as these things are) by several high-profile cases of social work gone bad—the death of a child returned to its birth mother and the removal of other children from mothers publicly perceived as able to care for them. The new head of England's Family Courts has said that the goal of the system should be to keep families together, rather than (or probably in addition to) looking after the interests of children, and the London Times profiled a"programme"—concurrent adoption—that aims to do both and is coping with those sometimes incompatible goals.