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Madness for international organisation to be concerned with a child (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

unreason

'madness' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'international organisation to be concerned with a child' is the wordplay.
'international organisation' becomes 'UN' (United Nations).
'to be concerned with' becomes 're' (re means regarding a certain topic).
'child' becomes 'son' (male child).
'un'+'re'+'a'+'son'='UNREASON'

'for' is the link.

(Other definitions for unreason that I've seen before include "foolishness" , "insanity" , "The absence of rationality or logic" , "Irrationality" , "nonsense" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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