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Keike, would you be comfortable with a child you were fostering having a blood transfusion or other procedure you wouldn't normally consent to?
With adoption, parents are given full parental rights including medical and so if you got that far there would be no difference between a child come to your family through adoption or birth.
The definition and guidelines differs between States for Permanent care and i'm not sure how it works in WA.
I have looked at the guidelines for both Vic and WA and haven't found anywhere where religion would rule out a couple adopting. In adoption, the birth family often have input in to which adoptive family is chosen, and having a religion could be seen as beneficial to a birth family that wanted their child to grow up with religion.
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It would depend on if it were a life threatening emergency. I don't feel I have the right to refuse treatment for a child that isn't mine if it will most likely end that child's life. If it wasn't an emergency I would definitely ask for alternatives, but whether or not the child received a blood transfusion would make no difference to the way I treated them or felt about them.
I was talking to a colleague about transfusions yesterday actually, and he thought that I would hate myself and be forced out of the congregation if I received a blood transfusion against my wishes; he also thought that we would abandon a child who received one, through their own choice or against it. I think ideas like that have come from medical soap operas - whenever I've seen a JW in one of their stories, it always ends up with the congregation condemning them and the JW killing themselves trying to 'get the tainted blood out'. In real life though, it's very different. If I had an operation tomorrow and was given a transfusion without my consent, I would not be punished or abandoned or anything - I made my choice, based on my beliefs, and it was disregarded, I have no control over what others choose to do to me.
Am I barking up the wrong tree, or is that what you were getting at? :)
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Right tree :lol:
Not trying to give you 20 questions. That is the kinda thing that the social workers will probably ask. They want to know that you have thought about these kind of things.
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I'm happy to answer them - as you say, we'll likely be asked more intrusive ones soon anyway!
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I hope it doesn't stop you. IMO its totally rubbish that it could prevent you from doing it.
