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A year in care after a social services witch hunt.

The baby-stealing bureaucrats
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The twins snatched by the state after mother's innocuous remark sparked a social services witch hunt.

02 April 2011

Leaning over the hospital incubator, Tara Norman smiled proudly down at her tiny newborn twins and whispered: ‘You should see what you have done to your Mummy’s body.’

Tara and Adrian NormanIt was the kind of rueful joke that any exhausted new mother might make after a traumatic emergency Caesarean section.
 
Implicit, of course, was the emphatic message that she would do it all again in a heartbeat, for the sake of knowing the joy of motherhood.



‘No one is born with parenting skills, but we were learning as we went along, just like anyone else,’ says Adrian, a 43-year-old former Post Office worker. ‘If we had been given some help we would have been fine. But they only seemed interested in taking the children away.’

Read full article: Source: Daily Mail

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