Children and Adoption Bill [HL]

That is a helpful reply and I shall reflect carefully on what the Minister has said. The obvious rejoinder to it, I suppose, is that a 16 or 17 year-old parent is just as capable as an older person of defying the court order on contact, and why should he or she get away with it? But I take on board the point that the noble Lord made about the vulnerability of parents of that age group. That is undoubtedly correct. No doubt, as he said, this was a finely balanced decision but it is one that will profit from further thought on my part between now and the next stage of the Bill. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.