Sterilisation to prevent child abuse!

Posted on September 2nd, 2010

There have been many murmurings over the comments made by Professor David Marsland of Brunel University, who on Radio 4 last week suggested that the only way to prevent parents with mental health problems and drug and alcohol issues from abusing their children is to sterilise them, irreversibly!
Marsland spoke about Social Workers and the Police recommending the force-able and irreversible sterilisation of adults who they deem to be ‘incapable’ of looking after their children.
I wonder how many of today’s Social Worker’s would grapple with the notion of being given the power to apply to the Court for such a procedure to take place.