I don't think what OL7MAX has stated is completely true
OK, I'd be delighted if you pointed out what exactly in my last post is not true.
After we had our baby here, the support provided by the nurses, midwives and later Health visitors was very valuable.
Yes, they do interfere no end.
Every new parent is a potential idiot and needs to be protected from themselves. The busybody health visitors will weigh your baby, and advise on health matters, yes,
but they also go back to the office and fill in forms with their opinion on the quality of your home, your suitability as parents, details about your relationship with your wife (or their opinions about it), and a host of other rubbish.
Why do you think they put the new mum through those questionnaires (psychological testing)? To score you as a father/dad! Why do you think they want to know everything from whether the mum has a full time job ... to what contraception you're planning on using? (I promise you that it is standard for them to grill you on the latter). Within six weeks of giving birth it will be expected of your wife that he has resumed her "wifely role". In fact she
has to try getting intimate by then and report back to say whether it hurt!
If you're the client they typically expect to deal with (16 yrs, illiterate, smoker and habitual drinker) then these state agents
may serve a useful purpose in life. Otherwise, pack their sorry Nazi asses off your property. I do. It's not out of concern for anyone knowing my private business but because I don't trust spies.
Think you're rid of them after a year or two? Nope! When your kid starts school they'll want to inspect him, measure him, question him, and statistically compare that with the detailed questionnaires they expect you to fill (including your height, your wife's height, what food you eat, and how many bedrooms your house has....
I have a copy of the form and you won't believe what they want to know!). Then they compare it with the snooping they did when they were allowed access to your house. Your son is 0.2 mm less than what we expect him to be at this age. Are you a good dad? The computer says No.
Do you have any idea what happens when they (or the computer) decides you're a bad parent? They can take your kid away. Think it won't happen to you? Last year 5,000 kids were taken away from their parents
wrongly. Some of them were placed with adoptive parents and can therefore never be returned to their biological ones. Do you know what happened to 600 of the rest of the kids? They got lost. Yes, social services doesn't know where they are. They could be living rough or rotting in someone's fridge! (All data in this para from The Daily Telegraph over the last three months - search their site if you have the time. And the 5,000 excludes the
MSBP cases)
Just because an individual seems nice and helpful is no reason to assume that their work is ultimately in your interest.
