Further information
Adoption and Children Bill
12:15 pm
Felicity Collier:
What I can tell you—this is the bit that I extracted because I thought that it was what you might ask me—is that, looking at the attitude of people of different ages to whether unmarried couples should adopt, 75 per cent. of 25 to 54-year-olds either believed or believed strongly that unmarried couples should adopt, or were neutral but did not disagree, compared with 59 per cent. of those aged 55-plus. So undoubtedly people over the age of 55 are rather less inclined to believe that unmarried couples should adopt. One could speculate that that would be because—