There’s a growing problem, and it’s all about Facebook.  Like you’d expect any other site to be the source of problems these days.  Once again, there’s more privacy concerns swirling around Facebook.  Now, rather than employers monitoring your status updates, it’s a question of adopted children getting stalked by their birth parents on Facebook.  Not their guardians watching over them, birth parents contacting their adopted children in defiance of the law.

In Great Britain, there’s a whole system in place that allows parents to keep up with their children after the children are given up for adoption or removed from parental custody.  It’s in place to prevent things like this from happening, because it can be a serious psychological trauma for the adopted child, and in most cases, these children are given up by (or removed from) parent custody for a good reason.

To face this new threat, the British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) is set to release new social networking guides for social workers and adoptive parents.  “We will have to build them into the fabric of our adoption practice and re-emphasise the importance of children knowing why they were placed for adoption and the circumstances of the birth parents,” said BAAF director Dr. John Simmonds.  “There is nothing we can say to the social networking sites.”

Tags: adoption, parents stalking children on Facebook, adopted children stalked by birth parents on Facebook, social networking, custody problems, contact orders, British Association for Adoption and Fostering, John Simmonds

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