The Weekly Law Reports
[1979] 3 WLR 244
[FAMILY DIVISION]
M. AND ANOTHER v. WIGAN METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL
1979 March 12,
13;
26
Sir George Baker P. and Sheldon J.
Children and Young Persons
— Care of
— Children received into care by local authority
— Parents' pattern of rejection
— Mother's frequent pregnancies complicated by ill-health
— Failure to adopt reliable form of birth control
— Parents reluctant to have children at home
— Authority's resolution assuming parental rights
— Whether parents “consistently” failing in parental obligations
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Children Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 43), s. 2 (1) (as substituted by Children Act 1975 (c. 72), s. 57)