Unmarried free to adopt as couple

It' not often that I have anything good to say about New Labour, but this time tehy are actually doing something good. Unmarried free to adopt as couple, single (or gay) individuals where already able to adopt but their partners had not part in it unless they where married. It will also allow greater abilities for the birth parents to try and get into contact with the children that they felt they could not bring up themselves, but it is still up to the adopted child as whether they want to make contact or not.