Law change prompts same-sex adoptions to plummet
The Maternity Act, which came into force in 2019, made it easier for couples to declare parenthood, significantly reducing the number of adoptions.
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The Maternity Act, which came into force in 2019, made it easier for couples to declare parenthood, significantly reducing the number of adoptions.
The organisers of the Dublin Pride festival described discussions on the RTÉ Radio 1 programme as ‘unacceptable and extremely harmful’.
We list the various types of incentives announced under the Gujarat IT/ITES Policy 2022-27, which aims to make Gujarat state a leading IT hub in India.
Statistics Finland Fall in the number of families has halted According to Statistics Finland’s data, there were 1,467,653 families in Finland at the end of 2020. The number of families grew by 285, while in the previous year it decreased by 1,313 families. While in 1990 the commonest family type was “married couple with children”, in 2020 the commonest family type was “married couple without children”. The number of families with a married couple and children has been falling steadily. Correspondingly, the number of married and cohabiting couples living without children has grown. F...
Michael Ellis, attorney general Michael Ellis has been named attorney general while Suella Braverman is on maternity leave, Downing Street has confirmed. Braverman is the first minister to use the Maternity Act 2021, which allows her to take paid leave while she has a baby. Northampton North MP Ellis, who moves up from the position of solicitor general, has previously served as transport minister, arts minister and deputy leader of the Commons. Lucy Frazer, who was prisons minister, will take up the role of solicitor general and be appointed to the privy council, the government also sai...