"It is an internationaly accepted wrong to separate a child from a close kinship group like Indians or Roma, or Pavees and place that child with a group which discriminates against that child."

A few questions:-

- Where is this "internationally accepted"?
For one source, as I said above, the UN convention on the rights of the child. Secondly, even if the foster family LOVES Travellers, the message it sends a child with a fully developed sence of self as a Traveller, to be given to another culture, is that there is something wrong and lacking in her own... as far as that notion accepted in the US check out the Congressional hearings on the establishment of the American Indian Child Welfare Act. As to your other questions about Ms. Toogoods "Friends" actually her family, you assume too much from the press coverage, the difference between protecting your community of Travellers or Roma from a body with a history of oppresing them, is closer to the reality as written about by legal scholars like Walter O Wyrauch in the Yale Law Review. All the best, Larry