Michael Gove, here, on the experience of being in care and being adopted, has written, literally, the piece of his life. What he says is true, and the tragedy is that the lives of children and potential parents continue to be blighted by people who impose their own view of society on others in a brutal and ignorant power play. But then, ignorance is what these people deal in, usually in the name of equality.
When my research for the Who Cares? Trust was published in 1995, it was criticised on the grounds that achievement was not an appropriate concept for children in care. I remain outraged at this ignorant, arrogant, anti-social attitude, which is, alas, still prevalent in the left, who see achievement as a middle-class preoccupation rather than as the goal of life and the basis of civilisation. Unfortunately, they are still in power in too many places, not least, if Michael Gove is right, our anti-social and left-leaning judiciary.