The government are now saying that the "adoption target" ceased in 2006. For year 1/4/5-31/3/6 there was BV163 which was adoptions from care. This remained in year 6-7 and 7-8, but was redefined to include special guardianships. It is misleading to say that the target ended when it was redefined.
Why are babies born young? This sounds like an odd question. People would say "of course babies are born young". However, this goes to the core of the question of human (or animal) development. Why is it that as time passes people develop initially through puberty and then for women through menopause and more generally getting diseases such as sarcopenia, osteoporosis, diabetes and cancer, but most of the time babies start showing no signs of this. Lots of research into this has happened over the years and now I think it is clear why this is. It raises some interesting questions. Biological youth is about how well a cell functions. Cells that are old in a biological sense don't work that well. One of the ways in which cells stop working is they fail to produce the full range of proteins. Generally the proteins that are produced from longer genes stop being produced. The reason for this relates to how the Genes work (the Genome). Because the genome is not gettin...
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Both me and the missus have mental illness (nothing serious (in a dangerous way) PTSD and depression) and frankly we live in fear of the social services - indeed in part this fear led to the stillbirth of our daughter last year.
Thankfully we have been blessed a second time, and have managed to keep out of the reaches of the social services, hopefully it will stay this way.
Though it doesn't say much for the wellfare state that things should be this way.
Now all we have to worry about is a miracle cure by David Freud, and the subsquent endless meals of beans on toast.
btw what happened to the disablity discrimantion act - I thought it was meant to stop this sort of thing - oh yeah I forgot we are nuts and don't count. Still I guess it is nice that it exists to provide yet more tick boxes for government to show just how enlightened the country is in matters of social policy.