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Congratulations to the websters

The link is to a story on the Mail on Sunday where Nicky Webster and her new born daughter are pictured.

Their sibling group of five is now split into three families. One sibling sees the other two, but the remaining two are isolated from their siblings.

I know of other situations where judges are deciding to remove and adopt one child from a family whilst leaving the rest together with a grandparent.

That is such an absurd decision as there has to be some other pressure on decisionmaking beyond "the best interests of the child".

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