§ Mr. Concannonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will review the Family Allowances Act with a view to making it possible for a child born to a recognised common law husband and wife to be counted in the husband's family for family allowances purposes.
§ Mr. DeanNo. An illegitimate child who is living with his mother may count only in her family, and the general effect of this rule is to safeguard the mother's rights. Moral considerations are not involved, for where an unmarried couple are living with children of which they are the parents, all the children count in the mother's family.