Re: Where does English law stand for contact/visitation of half siblings?
I think the issue of adoption is one in which the Children's Act 1989 and the Adoption and Children's Act 2002 collide. There is an inherent right of a child to a right to family life under the Human Rights Act yet this is effectively stopped because what the Adoption and Children's Act 2002 does is to convert the mother who gave birth to the child into merely and object of birth. You carried the child, your DNA is within the child yet the Adoption and Children's Act 2002 effectively strips you of all of that and make the birth mother into a mere object. Any half siblings are effectively swept away and the child will be told that they cannot see the child any longer.
The best interest of the child may well fail the siblings or half siblings of the child that the law apparently seeks to protect.
I think the issue of adoption is one in which the Children's Act 1989 and the Adoption and Children's Act 2002 collide. There is an inherent right of a child to a right to family life under the Human Rights Act yet this is effectively stopped because what the Adoption and Children's Act 2002 does is to convert the mother who gave birth to the child into merely and object of birth. You carried the child, your DNA is within the child yet the Adoption and Children's Act 2002 effectively strips you of all of that and make the birth mother into a mere object. Any half siblings are effectively swept away and the child will be told that they cannot see the child any longer.
The best interest of the child may well fail the siblings or half siblings of the child that the law apparently seeks to protect.
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