Why the heck not? Don’t fathers have rights in England? What if the woman died giving birth? It’s his own child, I don’t see why he wouldn’t have 100% rights to that child.
What am I missing here?
Whatever you may be missing, it seems that I am in the same boat. I believe that in the matter of divorces, fathers are 'occasionally' given custody of a child, and sometimes a baby, when the woman is shown to be unfit, as well as in the case of the death of a mother as you have said. Since the father has apparently not been shown to be legally unfit due to any other reason than his not being married to the mother, it is all a rather baffling, convoluted matter, and it seems that the Government's greatest wish in this case is to remove the child from the family entirely.
Just astonishing.
Weird. Dumb people have rights too. Why do they think they can take away her child? Without any evidence of maltreatment or anything?
F-ing Communist. Dictating everything.