UK judge urges tolerance in ruling on Traveller children

"The parenting in this case has certainly been far more, one might say, robust ... than one would expect in the conventional nuclear family."

A UK High Court judge asked to make decisions about the welfare of three traveller children says tolerance must be shown for the traditions of different communities.

Mr Justice Mostyn said the children, aged between two and nine, had not been cared for in a conventional fashion and there had been incidents that went beyond "robustness" and into the realm of neglect.