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Petition update, 26 September 2008

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We are shocked by the suggested amendment to the human fertilisation and embryology act 1990 that 'children do not need a father'. All the research goes to show that fathers are just as important as mothers to the welfare of children. It was Dr Bowlby in 'Maternal Care and Mental Health' in 1951 who stated that,

'Mother-love in infancy and childhood is as important for mental health as are vitamins and proteins for physical health'.

This led to government policy which supported the idea that fathers went to work whilst mothers should stay at home to look after the family. We the undersigned believe the suggested amendment to the act is a 'throw back' to a bygone age and that there is good research to show that the welfare of children will suffer without the support of a father.

We petition that the amendment is not put before the House of Commons and respectfully ask the Prime Minister not to deny other children the same opportunity as his own - the love and affection of a father.

Current signatories

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• Anne McIntyre
• Colin James Duncan
• Patricia Murphy
• ruth Anne O'Neill
• AMY CLEMENTS
• A M Mortimer
• Hazel Boyd
• Cyril Campbell
• Ashley Keith Dickenson
• Rosa Burrows
• Adrian Holloway
• 'Tomi Ajetunmobi
• Sr. Josephine Collier
• David Bailey
• Yvonne Bryson
• Hazel Loney
• Jane Plumb
• David Rose
• Anne Rowentre
• Jenny Brewer
• brendan magurie
• Ian Brown
• Carol Kay
• stephen james mccreery
• Charles Hines
• Amy Smith
• james mcdermott
• George Leslie Leinweber
• Sarah May
• Jennifer Hartley
• Dorothy M. McIntosh
• Jude Graham
• Sr Hyacinthe Defos du Rau
• Patricia Udell
• Julie Davidson
• Audrey Edwards
• Lucy Wingate
• John Wallace
• Dennis Warner
• Jeanette Griffiths
• Dorothy Ross
• Michele Marvin
• MARGARET WIGHAM
• Andrew Davis
• Miriam Furze
• Jolanta Pitera
• Howard Dickins
• Brian Calder
• Graham Roseblade
• Miriam Roman
• ed todino
• Sarah Bishop
• Sean Green
• Derek Balsdon
• Richard Walker
• Scott Taylor
• ANNA GREEN
• Gary Watkins
• Ian Frost
• Tim Jablonski
• Matt Ford
• Tom Riches
• Jessica del Rio
• Hannah Gridley
• James Whitney
• Jim Cheshire
• Diane Cheshire
• haydn john latham
• Lawrence Wilson
• Philip Robinson
• James del Rio
• Dr C Buckley
• Karen Dwight
• Maria Polland
• Simon Starling
• Helen Moorhouse
• Louise Ketley
• Catherine Beckett
• Kelly-Sue Butcher-Bigley
• Claire Ashby
• Robin Dalton
• Emma Smith
• Dorothy Norman
• Joseph Polland
• MARY J LEWIS BL
• Ian Spaxman
• John Wheatley
• Charlotte Coleman
• Ian Farrow
• Elizabeth Page
• Stephen Oliver
• ANDREW LOVELL
• Alan Fairweather
• Clive Luke
• Janette Cox
• James Burns
• what about abusive fathers do children have a right
• laura Mather
• Hannah Park
• katherine harvey
• daniel boucher
• Christine Webb
• Mary Forsyth
• stacey garrett
• Michael Keohane
• David Foxley
• Kenneth McCaw
• Ian Wallace
• Alistair Campbell
• Elizabeth Shannon
• Heather Jones
• Colin McWhirter
• Colin Mercer
• Janice Flinn
• Ross Bailie
• Jonathan Dawe
• Barbara Verrall
• R P Stanley
• Claire Steele
• Timothy Reynolds
• Lesleyann Timms
• Jacqueline Bridgeman
• Michael Wood
• Edward Pratt
• Peter Buckley
• Katherine McAllister
• Richard Greenaway
• robin mccormick
• erika uzikova
• Douglas Weston
• liza Angus
• Stephen Percy
• Helen Banks
• Jonathan Cordes
• Paula Norgrove
• Lisa Bradley
• David Bleloch
• Christine
• mike grant
• Thomas Mulrine
• Susan Thompson
• Philip Bailie
• D Leung
• Julian Hardyman
• Ann-Marie Kusnyer
• Suzanne Elizabeth Upchurch
• pauline hayward
• Melanie Kueffner
• Shirley John
• Michael Wheate
• Sonya Tate
• Lyndsay Morrison
• Margaret Samaranayake
• Rosemary George
• Allan-Stuart James McLeod
• John Vivian
• Emmerson Walgrove
• Rebekah Dalling
• Stephen Dalling
• Jennifer Wharton
• Ellen Quartey-Papafio
• bruce murray
• Timothy Bousfield
• Sarah Wood
• Rhoda Bourne
• Judith Harkness
• Colin Smith
• Linda Perham
• sandra
• Oliver Proctor
• Elizabeth Bardsley
• Ian Cunningham
• Peter Potter
• Chris Peddie
• Fiona Graves
• Caroline Hallett
• Joseph Angell
• Richard Standing
• Colin Holmes
• Elaine Holmes
• sharon blackman
• Helen Eaton
• Robert Barnes
• Nick Chan
• Daniel Brewer
• Lilian E. Murchison
• James Cowburgh
• Helen Holbrook
• Jonathan Bateman
• Neville L.H. Cresdee
• Simon Hodgson
• Wendy Clements
• Harry Chant
• DAVID C THOMAS
• Guy Pembroke
• Margit Newman
• Tom Hutchison
• Colleen Norman
• Sara Hampton
• Connor Mulholland
• Moira Anketell
• Sarah Rogers
• peter chapman
• Bernard Brown
• Colin Crooks
• Michael Graham
• Lorna Zischka
• Jocelyn Anderson
• Jean Harvey
• David Clapham
• John Kerr
• Susan Gadsdon
• Heather Dipple
• j simmonds
• Terry Thorpe
• Lisa Miller
• T.Hulbert
• Detlev Munster
• Charlotte Peters Rock
• Pepita Gbadebo
• Elizabeth Smyth
• Joanne Partington
• Ruth Johnson
• philip thompsett
• Linda Kirby
• John Quintanilla
• S M Dingle
• Marian Scott
• Matthew Rees
• Julie Harvey
• Michelle Jones
• Valerie Robertson
• Madeleine Picozzi
• Jill Steer
• Jane Larkman
• Claire Preece
• kathryn Kemp
• Joseph Merryweather
• Diana Fletcher
• Sean Gamage
• harnomit babraa
• Brian Gooch
• Alan Harvey Smith
• Gautam D. Money
• Stephen Colclough
• Valerie Hill
• Valerie End
• Rosemary Gilbert
• Rebecca Toolsdale
• Isabel Johnstone
• Ann Wright
• Clare Chapman
• Timothy Dillon
• Mark Churchward
• Hannah Black
• Sylvia Kirtley
• Aisling Byrne
• S Somerville
• Holly Heap
• Rev Anthony Delaney
• Jennifer Carter
• Nick Webber
• Anthony Bowen
• Tim Crooks
• Janice M Wilson
• Derek Traylor
• Zoe Delaney
• Susan Edwards
• Susan Clapham
• Stephen Wells
• Angela O'Neill
• Andrew Binnington
• Janice Taylor
• Jennifer Thomas
• Jeanette Willis
• Hannah Jeffery
• G Lenain
• Tony Crooks
• S. Driffill
• judith appleton
• Tim Symonds
• Andrew Westwood
• Philip Sadler
• James Worthington
• helen Roulson
• Lois Gardener
• Harold Adeney
• Neil Howett
• peter semenenko
• James Chasteauneuf
• Lisa-marie Richardson
• Brook MacCallum
• Phil Latimer
• John Howard
• Nicola Jackson
• Samantha Kean
• Barry Colyer
• jbickerdike
• Stephen Charles Lawrence
• zoe plant
• julie gath
• Mrs D.M. Bell
• Gillian Thornborough
• JUNE WRAY
• John Murphy
• Mark Leishman
• Tracey Wilkinson
• Mr Derek Longstaff
• Helen Fail
• Francis Edwards
• Alison Clegg
• Jean Burston
• Peter Henderson
• helen mc clymont
• Danny Chu
• Jennine Hill
• Karen Elstub
• Ann Thomas
• Bob Barham
• John Noble
• Jennifer Godfrey
• Lydia Boorman
• Sharie Avery
• Jane Gallacher
• John Tranter
• Christopher Caruana
• Richard Coombe
• Howard Plush
• T. Lloyd-Nesling
• Seth Dockrill
• Naomi Light
• Sharon Maddy
• Brenda Taylor
• Maria Rodrigues
• Tim King
• vicki Sharkey
• sarah crouch
• Rev Dr Peter Naylor
• Monica Deighan
• Helen Hart
• Philip Young
• Emily Raggett
• Stuart Dean
• J Mc
• Phil Harris
• Hannah McCarthy
• graham swanston
• Robin Hutchinson
• anthony short
• Thomas Bracewell
• Tracey Turrell
• Peter Low
• Lin Hann
• Mark F Peoples
• Danielle Malkin
• Adrian Saggers
• Anne Saggers
• Adrian Warnock
• David Gibson
• Jim Grindell
• Tim Sandell
• Lee Gatiss
• John Andrew Moyle
• Elizabeth Lewis
• Emma Oldfield
• Elizabeth Batstone
• Christine Tufnell
• Anita Pickering
• Mark Dean
• J A Swadkin
• Vicky Armstrong
• Martyn Leman
• Rachel Edwards
• Pascal Christian
• Helen Lamb
• Marion Elliott
• Rachel Faul
• Robin Turnbull
• Claire Davies
• Tim Suffield
• Jenny Wilson
• Alistair Beavis
• E E Elliott
• Jennifer Ball
• Graham Ormerod
• Linda Lister
• Ian Marsh
• Peter Lidstone
• Jean McAulay
• dave targett
• Richard Davies
• Basil Crowley
• louise townsend
• Bill Appleton
• Jane Lindley
• Claire Varndell
• Sarah Kinning
• Louise Brannon
• Amy Brown
• anne campbell
• Andrew Sowden
• Bealinda Griffin
• Ed Driver
• Brian McNair
• paula brennan
• david hawksworth
• Bernadette Simcock
• William Mackie
• Martin Hearn
• Andrei Peterson
• Andrew Souter
• mike strover
• Andrew Turner
• Julian Hancock
• Penny Lee
• as long as the father is not abusive!!!!!
• C Mandrell
• Miss Rachael Loades
• Christopher Timm
• David B. Taylor
• AMANDA BROWN
• Sarah Bougeard
• Layla Welford
• Anna Boston
• lee hamley
• Karen Trusler
• Thelma Bennett
• Ja Davis
• Fran Thomas
• Charlotte Hylton
• Susan Kendal
• Tim Wood
• Anselm Plummer
• Pete Havard
• Natalie Moan
• Garfield Griffiths
• Mr G Moan
• stephanie harris
• Richard Bradbury
• Kayleigh Ritchie
• robert hegarty
• Louise Ackroyd
• steve harris
• Sarah Jamieson
• laura gilbert
• Victoria Redmond
• Mike Altoft
• miriam turvey
• Marjory MacLaren
• b deeney
• Aleksandar Lukic
• joel turvey
• Sean O'Hara
• Peter JM Lloyd
• Eon Gibson
• Sarah Humphris
• Lizi Bowerman
• Georgina Patrick
• George Karavidas
• SERTAN DJELAL
• Susan Archibald
• Michael G Conlon
• Ms Barber
• Edward Spurrier
• Rebecca Pickering
• Zeshan Hussain
• paul mott
• John Ford
• Rob Devereux
• Raymond M Smith
• Paul White
• Daniel Lewis
• Neil
• Valerie Meares
• Grandparents Apart UK
• mark smout
• Tim Line
• Tim Line
• Justine Thorne
• Christine B-Morgan
• Catherine Warburton
• Elisabeth dalby
• Michael Cusack
• A Mercer
• Elizabeth Evans
• Justin Arnold
• Richard Keirnan
• Victoria Yale
• Kevin Yale
• E Minnican
• Brian Gattrell
• stuart jones
• jan Downie
• Robert Bleasdale
• J Rawbone
• Ed
• David Reabow
• PETER HOWARD
• Steve Bassett
• Peter Burkimsher

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