Coronation Street - Current Episode Discussion - IV

[DaVeyWaVey]

I agree with all of your post, Davey. I did enjoy the Ray and Sylvia scenes last night though - they're so funny together

Yeah I love Roy and Sylvia scenes as well.

Loved the casino scenes with Roy & Sylivia. They brilliant together, much more fun than the whinning Wiindasses. Although Anna is right to stop Faye seeing her dad. He abandoned her once when she was a baby how long before he gets fed up with her again and disappears.

I get that Anna wants to protect Faye and doesn't want to see her get hurt, but I still think she and Owen were being unreasonable. Social services had checked him out and they said he was safe for Faye to see. I thought Owen was really pathetic when he pushed him against the wall and threatened him. Tim seems genuine to me and wants to undo all the mistakes he's made in the past and put things right again. I'm glad Anna seemed to be coming round to the idea of Tim seeing her last night and told Owen to leave.

So where was Ruby when Kirsty went to see Fiz did she leave in the house by herself

Emily was probably on babysitting duties again!

[sarah c]

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I get that Anna wants to protect Faye and doesn't want to see her get hurt, but I still think she and Owen were being unreasonable. Social services had checked him out and they said he was safe for Faye to see. I thought Owen was really pathetic when he pushed him against the wall and threatened him. Tim seems genuine to me and wants to undo all the mistakes he's made in the past and put things right again. I'm glad Anna seemed to be coming round to the idea of Tim seeing her last night and told Owen to leave.
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as an adopted child, and someone that has been through the adoption process/vetting that Anna has been through I can sympathise with her.

She is raising Faye, clothing her, feeding her, paying for school trips etc etc and disciplining her - along comes good old Tim - who for ten years has wanted nothing to do with Faye - and he gets to take her out? buy her pizza - fun trips after school - it undermines what Anna is trying to - and needs to do?

Fayes biological Mum and Tim relinquished their rights to have a say in her upbringing, when they put her or allowed her to go into care - why should Tim now wlatz in and get to do all the 'fun' bits..?

[sarah c]

and yes Owen is pathetic and needs to butt out....

[flappinfanny]

corrie is on top form at the mo, if only we could get rid of the windasses then everything would be a ok. the faye storyline is a bit of a yawn fest.

[LostVoodoo]

Anna has handled the Tim situation quite well I think, she's obviously very wary of him and got social services to check him out. Plus she's said she can see him but only for a little while and supervised by her. That means that whilst it will be tense she knows Faye will be safe and they can all get to know each other. It's Owen that is execerbating the situation, because whilst he probably thinks he's such an amazing parent having brought up his two girls he does't even have the basic skilll of talking to people without shouting or threatening. That gets Faye's back up and gives Tim reason to get social services concerned about her home. I bet he finds out Owen smacked her soon, then that'll blow the whole thing up even more.

[sarah c]

Anna has handled the Tim situation quite well I think, she's obviously very wary of him and got social services to check him out. Plus she's said she can see him but only for a little while and supervised by her. That means that whilst it will be tense she knows Faye will be safe and they can all get to know each other. It's Owen that is execerbating the situation, because whilst he probably thinks he's such an amazing parent having brought up his two girls he does't even have the basic skilll of talking to people without shouting or threatening. That gets Faye's back up and gives Tim reason to get social services concerned about her home. I bet he finds out Owen smacked her soon, then that'll blow the whole thing up even more.

but when an adoption order is ratified by the Courts, as Faye's has been - it is a legally binding agreement. Tim has no rights here? Faye was put up for adoption, has been adopted by Anna, and job done!

what right does Tim have to walk back in and play Mr Bountiful

[parkerman]

He has no rights, but it's more to the point what Faye wants surely? The whole situation needs to be handled more tactfully by Anna (and certainly by Owen!) given that Faye would naturally be curious and want to see her real father. Just banning him from seeing her is obviously going to create more problems than it solves and will end up totally alienating Faye while at the same time doing nothing to stop her wanting to get to know her father and having to find devious ways of doing it. What Anna is doing now is what she should have done to start with. Controlled visits.

[sarah c]

as an adoptive child you can ask to have access to the details of your birth parents when you turn 18 and you are able to search for them if you wish.

at 12 years of age, Faye shouldnt be given this access - but I guess thats the power of the internet and social networking.

Given that Tim left when she was 2 years of age, where did she gethis details etc from?

[parkerman]

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[parkerman]

I can't quite remember the storyline now of how she managed to contact Tim but as far as I can remember he came out of it all quite well. However, whatever the reason for his leaving and the adoption, the fact is that, even though she is only 12, she has found out and she is naturally going to be curious about him and want to get to know him. You can't just pretend it hasn't happened and lock her in her room with no access to the Internet etc. It all has to be dealt with much more sympathetically then either Anna or Owen are dealing with it. Otherwise Faye is going to resent Anna more and more. Surely that would be the worst possible outcome, much worse than letting her see her father on a controlled basis.