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Adoption and Children Bill: Clause 44 — Suitability Of Adopters (4 Nov 2002)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...of all the reviews. We are looking only to return to the status quo of the Government's original Bill. Another day should be allocated for sympathetic debates about the rights of unmarried couples, gay or otherwise, and many Conservative Members will want to participate enthusiastically in them. However, today is the day for promoting the rights of damaged children to a decent second...

Adoption and Children Bill: Clause 44 — Suitability Of Adopters (4 Nov 2002)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...the House of Lords. At column 874, he said: XI happily agree with many noble Lords that married couples should have priority over unmarried couples. I also agree that unmarried couples should have priority over gay couples."—[ Official Report, House of Lords, 16 October 2002; Vol. 639, c. 874.] Many hon. Members will have sympathy with that view, yet Lord Hunt specifically ruled out...

Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]: Clause 41 — Child to live with adopters before application (16 May 2002)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...thereby heighten the chances of making clause 1 a reality for more children. That is what we are here to discuss today—nothing else. Now is not the time for political agendas, for promoting gay rights agendas, or even for promoting the moral basis for the desirability of marriage. In that I agree with the comment in The Guardian editorial on 14 March when it said: "Adoption should...

Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]: Clause 41 — Child to live with adopters before application (16 May 2002)

Mr Tim Loughton: I said that I wanted to make some progress. We are now told that the Liberals were not due to be whipped to be here at all on Monday. They are interested only in the gay rights agenda as part of the Bill, which is disgraceful. It is interesting that the BBC, which has been ringing round the expert adoption agencies asking specifically how many complaints they have received from unmarried...

Orders of the Day — Adoption and Children Bill — [2nd Allotted Day]: Clause 41 — Child to live with adopters before application (16 May 2002)

Mr Tim Loughton: ...) said, more than half of cohabiting couples split up within five years of the birth of a child. They split up most often when they have children. The statistics go on and on. The figures show that gay relationships are more transitory still. Married couples offer by far the best long-term chances of stability, statistically and sociologically, and that is what we should be concentrating...