{"id":196,"date":"2006-10-31T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=196"},"modified":"2006-10-31T09:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T08:54:00","slug":"an-interesting-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/an-interesting-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I moved to Scotland, one of the differences to Denmark I noticed was the lack of adoptive children from other continents.  Lots of Danish parents have kids of Korean, African, Chinese or Indian origin, but I never saw any here.  I discussed it in the car with Phyllis this morning, and it turns out that it used to be common, but that the practice was abandoned in the mid-70s because of concerns that white parents couldn&#8217;t raise kids of other cultures.  Interestingly, it only seemed to get common in Denmark around the same time &ndash; there are almost no people my age or older with that background, but lots that are younger than me.  So it seems Denmark took over where the UK left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I moved to Scotland, one of the differences to Denmark I noticed was the lack of adoptive children from other continents. Lots of Danish parents have kids of Korean, African, Chinese or Indian origin, but I never saw any here. I discussed it in the car with Phyllis this morning, and it turns out that it used to be common, but that the practice was abandoned in the mid-70s because of concerns that white parents couldn&#8217;t raise kids of other cultures. Interestingly, it only seemed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}