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However, constituency experience tells me that the aim is far from being achieved across the board. I have met a parent whose son was in foster care and who voiced concerns to social services about apparent bruising on his son.
There is no pain involved and no recovery; it is something to which the child adapts instantly.My son was referred to a neurologist because I requested that.
Perhaps that was because his 18-year-old son was driving him mad at the time and he may not have wanted to think about his son being able to become a councillor.
One individual responding to our survey stated —
I am a donor, my family are donors. I registered my son as a child (with his consent). My issue is with presumed consent, turning my choice and therefore my body into yet another chattel of the state.
We found high levels of patient satisfaction: the average was 92 per cent. Even allowing for what my son calls a captive audience, that is pretty good going.