UN says child has right to be cared for by parents

Your correspondent Ciaran O Raghallaigh (Letters, March 16) disputes my assertion that neither the European Union (EU) nor United Nations (UN) state that a child has a right to a father and mother ‘where possible’.

Fri, 20 Mar, 2015 - 00:00

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I would like to challenge that point.

This is the full text of Article 7 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child:

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