Council takes away couple's foster children because of political beliefs

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kowenicki said:

Immortal said:
Given that this party appears to be almost mainstream and the parents seem quite adequate, this is indeed unacceptable. Mind you, since this is the only source I'm looking at, I obviously can't be entirely sure these are true.
This does bring up the larger question, though: is it alright to put children into the hands of foster parents who are very caring, but are likely to brainwash them into hateful ideologies?

How wold you know? I doubt a family who would promote hateful ideologies would like to foster. Its also a dangerous precedent, are we to take children away from birth parents if we feel they don't conform to current thinking on certain subjects.  It's a natural progression surely.

I realise these children will be under the court of protection and so society has a say in how hey they are raised, but this family was normal and political ideologies should not even be under scrutiny.

No need to get particularly passionate about this with me; I'm just asking a question.

Anyhow, I don't see why it's necessary that a family with hateful ideologies would be unwilling to foster. I mean, a lot of what we would call hateful used to be the norm at some point not too far back, did it not? And it's a bit unfair to say that old-fashioned people would be unwilling to foster. As such, I'd say it's easily possible for some over-conservative but good-natured people to want to be foster parents.

Of course, whether or not society should stop fringe ideologies from being propagated by foster parents at all is the bigger question here. While most people would agree that, past a certain point of deviating morally from the norm, we should try to stop them (neo-nazis, for example, should certainly not be allowed to be foster parents, I'm guessing), this whole idea seems to have a very over-controlling government air to it.

As I said before, though, from what I see in this article, this particular case is entirely unjustified.