Child’s right to live with natural parents
Piers Paul Read (born 1941) is a British novelist and non-fiction writer. In March 2010, he took part in a very interesting debate. The audience at this London debate, hosted by The Spectator, voted overwhelmingly in favour of the motion: “England...
Piers Paul Read (born 1941) is a British novelist and non-fiction writer. In March 2010, he took part in a very interesting debate. The audience at this London debate, hosted by The Spectator, voted overwhelmingly in favour of the motion: “England should be a Catholic country again”.
Among other things, Mr Read had this to say: “Recently the Conservative Party has woken up to the damage done to England’s social fabric by the increasing number of broken homes.
There is much cant about protecting the rights of children but, as Pope John Paul II said, the right of a child to be brought up under one roof by its natural parents should be seen as one of the most fundamental of all human rights. And there is no doubt that it would be, if children had the vote. But children do not have the vote. They have no lobby...”
Instead, he said, “the wretchedness of broken homes, is cascading from generation to generation”.
And in Malta?