M v Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council

Subject Matter

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS — Care of — Child 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 — Children Act 1948, s 2 (1) (as substituted by Children Act 1975, s 57)

[1980] Fam 36; [1979] 3 WLR 244