Fostering/adoption allowances?

mountainofdebt

well I offered to give him £1

on the provision that I was the legal owner of 1/215,000 of the house.

Strangely enough he wasn't too keen to take me up on my offer.

I think the mods locked the original thread and have perhaps removed it.

Now if 15,000 people want to give me £1 each I can clear my cards and have a nice nest egg as well :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

gingin_2

Rich, what happens to the house when the children have grown up? Is it theirs or yours?

I would be far more inclined to donate if the fund was entirely for the children. That is if the money was put in trust for the children for when they are older, or to help pay towards therapy and counselling and the odd day out given what they might have been through - and the target would be nothing near £215,000.

If I think of the friends I communicate with daily I have one with 5 children in a 4 bed house ( small one at that), one with 3 children in a 2 bed house and one with 2 children in a 2 bed flat - all rented. A 3 bed for a family of 4 sounds perfect.

The kids look incredibly sweet but I hope they are allowed to move on with their lives and not forever paraded about as victims.

mountainofdebt

gingin wrote: »

Rich, what happens to the house when the children have grown up? Is it theirs or yours?

I would be far more inclined to donate if the fund was entirely for the children. That is if the money was put in trust for the children for when they are older, or to help pay towards therapy and counselling and the odd day out given what they might have been through - and the target would be nothing near £215,000.

If I think of the friends I communicate with daily I have one with 5 children in a 4 bed house ( small one at that), one with 3 children in a 2 bed house and one with 2 children in a 2 bed flat - all rented. A 3 bed for a family of 4 sounds perfect.

The kids look incredibly sweet but I hope they are allowed to move on with their lives and not forever paraded about as victims.

Not being funny but what makes these two children any different from the hundreds of other children who have had a !!!!!! start to life?

Would you contribute to every sob story?

gingin_2

mountainofdebt wrote: »

Not being funny but what makes these two children any different from the hundreds of other children who have had a !!!!!! start to life?

Would you contribute to every sob story?

No. Asking for a £215,000 house is ridiculous. I am offering other suggestions that might be more reasonable.

kingfisherblue

The original thread was locked when I read it earlier today. It has disappeared now, so I would imagine that the mods have removed it - after all, there was an awful lot of identifying information on it, including a link that showed a photo of the children. I know that some posters pointed out that Social Services would not have been impressed.

Personally, I would not be advertising the problems that these children have faced - they are too young to object themselves, and the OP of the original thread seems to have been trying to pull a fast one, using the children as bait. A three bedroom rented house is suitable for a couple and two young children, and even if the couple add to their family in the future, children can share a bedroom. I'm in a three bedroomed house - I have one room, my two sons are in the second (one is disabled and with a lot of night time care needs that disturb his brother). My daughter, almost 21 years old, has the box room - her chest of drawers is under the stairs as there isn't enough space in her bedroom to accommodate it :rotfl: