The Guardian view on fostering: cultural sensitivity needed | Editorial

The row over a Christian girl fostered by Muslim carers raises ugly emotions which must not obscure the principlesThe decision to take a child into care is never easy. Both the child and its natural parents will normally feel a great loss, and these feelings must be respected even if the alternative appears to be even worse. But the sundering of such a fundamental relationship will stir up strong feelings in onlookers too. The reports of a case in Tower Hamlets, where a white, Christian child is