You've Got Another Son. You Can't See Him. But Can He Have One of Your Organs? ; the Amazing and Disturbing Story of How Social Workers Put One Man and His Family in a Terrible Moral and Human Dilemma Over His Child

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THE letter from Hampshire Social Services was as brief as it was bewildering.

'Please ring me on the above number,' it said. 'I have some information that might be of interest to you.' This was quite an understatement, as Michael Shergold soon found.

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You've Got Another Son. You Can't See Him. But Can He Have One of Your Organs? ; the Amazing and Disturbing Story of How Social Workers Put One Man and His Family in a Terrible Moral and Human Dilemma Over His Child

A quietly spoken father of three, he finds that his life rarely gets more exciting than his weekly game of golf. But when he called the social workers as requested, he was confronted with a series of astonishing facts.

They said he was the father of another child - a five-year-old son from a previous, short-lived relationship. A former girlfriend, unable to cope with the demands of motherhood, had handed the boy over to foster parents.

A meeting with this new-found son was out of the question, he was told, let alone any sort of relationship. He was also informed that the boy was to be formally adopted and that the council was ringing merely to let him know.

His shock slowly turned to anger and then determination....

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