Clause 44 — Suitability Of Adopters

Part of Adoption and Children Bill – in the House of Commons at 7:00 pm on 4 November 2002.

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Photo of Julian Brazier Julian Brazier Shadow Minister (Work and Pensions) 7:00, 4 November 2002

I have never argued for discrimination. We have civil law marriages in this country and, as the hon. Member for Wakefield said, the vast majority of cases involve heterosexual couples. We simply ask, if both individuals want to have legal ties to the child, is it so much to expect them to make a binding legal tie to each other? A civil marriage contract is simply that.