The Human Rights Commission is yet anothe quango that is hugely expensive to operate and because it exists outside of ministeral control and direct answerability to Parliament is a blight on democracy.

If it ever served a useful purpose that purpose has been fulfilled long ago and the Commission should be disbanded forthwith.

Susan, I think you have to base your argument on stronger claims than occasionally seeing crying adults on current affairs shows who finally catch up with their birth mothers.

With regards to giving child to father and spouse.
A.The kid is not fully abandoned if Dad is still there.
B. There are a lot of street kids in our society and in most cases they are the ones who reject their birth mothers.
C. The example I gave in the previous post about the accidental parent switch. In those cases (where both environments were two parent and stable) there was no way either child wanted change, and also one suspected the children wished they had never even been made aware of the switch.
D. Do you really think you could tell if someone had been brought up in a loving family, but without birth mother, even if you got to know them really well over time?

I think there is a difference between having an interest in catching up with your birth parent, and regretting that your whole upbringing wasn’t in a different environment

Edward, only my mother calls me Susan when she is angry with me!

We will have to agree to disagree on this subject, because I will never agree to allowing a newborn to be taken away from a fit mother who wants her baby.

That's not equality, that is cruelty...

Susan! (In the stern voice of your mother ) :) and Edward. Please be carefully with the use of the term 'birth mother and 'birth father', I recall Tony Abbot being howled down and regailed by the media and the 'twitterati' for using that term recently, please try to employ the 'correct' terms in these areas; yes, I know that it is confusing, and you have used the most accurate language to describe the situation, nonetheless..........

Onthebeach. Could not agree more. Commissioners are redundant now that anti discrimination legislation is now law. You have a discrimination problem? Go see either the Ombudsman or a lawyer.