Surely not! But that's terrible! These would have been the reactions of thousands of us reading the report published last week which revealed that half of parents with learning difficulties lose their children.
The presumption was that Gestapo social services were whipping children away from hapless - but with support, good enough - parents.
So, why are so many learning disabled parents losing their children? Sadly, closer scrutiny of the report, Finding the Right Support by the Nora Fry Research Centre in Bristol, does not enlighten us.
The figure is more or less consistent with global figures. There is a positive trend: more people with learning disabilities are having children, their parenting is 'good enough' and their children are doing fine. But the 50 per cent who lose their children is as much a mystery as before.
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