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Catholic teenager, Protestant foster parents

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For nine years, a teenager, identified only as AR in court documents, lived with foster parents in Scotland. Now she is suing Highland Council for it. It seems that she was placed with Protestant families, despite being Catholic. According to papers filed by her lawyers, "The council failed to facilitate her continuing to follow her religious persuasion throughout the period she was looked after and accommodated."

Now, I understand that Protestants and Catholics don't get along over in that part of the world as well as they do here, but still, this seems a might petty. Would a "thank you for taking me in and feeding and clothing me" be too far out of line? On the other hand, if the foster parents tried to force her to convert or somehow treated her poorly for being Catholic, then perhaps she has a complaint.

I'd like to think that in such a situation, I'd nod politely at the whole religion thing and be damn thankful for their assistance. Heck, I'd even have no problem with going to services with them -- I grew up going to mass every Sunday and now I'm a champion thumb twiddler. Sometimes, that's just what you do. What do you think?

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Start by teaching him that it is safe to do so.