That would be a better investment of the 5.4 billion that the parental care allowance would cost.

The duty of care was breached in that no reasonable social work department would have returned him to parental care in the circumstances.

These are the years when you start doing everything for yourselves - you are cutting those golden puppet strings of parental care.

With proper parental care and guidance, they have to be encouraged to discover the world and learn how to look after themselves, just as our 1950s-1960s generation did.

But such a large clutch size fits a more reptilian way of reproducing than the typically mammalian method of having smaller litters which receive more parental care.