Agreed. It's also possible that by the time the later babies were put up for adoption it had been discovered that one or both of the older ones had medical or developmental issues which made them high need in terms of support and that placing the younger ones with the same parents would not be in the interests of anyone.
From reading the articles it sounds like she was adopted by the family she was already living with. My guess is she was placed with a family before any of the DNA findings were known. I think it would be more traumatic for her to be taken from the family she has bonded with even if placed with a sibling. It’s wonderful that the sibs will know each other as they grow up!
If so, wherever she is I hope she can take comfort in knowing the babies will be well cared for and given a chance at life.''Mr Basford said: 'I now think that the mother may have gone abroad. She may have been forced to leave the area; she may be being controlled.''
Police to stop search for parents after THREE babies were abandoned
For years detectives have desperately tried to trace their mother after DNA tests revealed that incredibly all three babies abandoned on London's streets were siblings.www.dailymail.co.uk
This tends to be the practice with newborns and young babies entering the system. It's known as "foster to adopt" where the baby is placed with potential adoptive parents for a period on a fostering basis as it allows the birth mother who has voluntarily surrendered a baby a breathing space to decide whether she wants to reclaim the baby and bring it up herself. It's not always popular with potential adopters because it can mean them bonding closely with the baby but then having to hand it back, but even if they are able eventually to adopt it, social services may insist on ongoing contact between the child and the birth mother and any other siblings. Whether such contact is always beneficial to the child is a matter of opinion. Until a few decades ago, the favoured practice was for a clean break, ie no ongoing contact and a child not always being told that he or she was adopted, but currently continuing contact is generally preferred by social services (though not by adoptive parents or a significant proportion of adopted children) unless there are compelling reasons why not.
Very likely, though given the repeated abandonment of very similar babies in a fairly small area they probably had their suspicions with Elsa.
Agreed.
Yes i think I’ve heard suggestions that the father may be a close relative. Would assume they must both be adults now in view of the wide age gaps. Although to discard a newborn it has to have been a very desperate situation each time. Feel for her (mum) and of course the babies
Unless we are thinking of incest over a number of years (which is not impossible as we have seen with cases of girls being kept prisoner by their fathers), then we should be looking perhaps at cultures where cousin marriage is a norm.
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