In an interesting turn of events, Ministers in the British government have decided that children conceived through egg or sperm donation will not have that information registered on their birth certificates, contrary to a report compiled by MPs and peers (Members of the House of Lords) saying that by "not doing it the state was complicit in a lie".

In its draft of the Human Tissue and Embryos Bill, the government did relax limits on inter-species embryos, however.

The government originally proposed banning the creation of any embryo containing human and animal cells in a white paper last December.

But it reversed its decision this year in a bill which indicated ministers were minded to allow hybrid embryos which were 99.9% human and 0.1% animal, following a backlash by scientists and patient groups.

And that has to be the weirdest quote I've ever put in a blog.

Speaking of ethics, and that must be what we were just doing, some are advising a 'wait and see' approach to the case of the profoundly disabled girl whose mother is hoping will be allowed to have a hysterectomy.

Because her uterus is healthy, there are many who are uncomfortable with the thought of removing it. Fears of widespread sterilization of the handicapped are running rampant and rights groups are up in arms. Her mother, however, sees painful, stressful and messy periods as something her daughter should not have to endure.

Staying in the UK for another couple of paragraphs, this story reports that there will soon be more unmarried parents in Britain than those that are wed, and suggests that within a generation, "most British children will not know what it is like to have married parents."

The shacking-up rate has zoomed up 65% in the last 10 years, and forecasts are predicting and additional 250% increase between now and 2031.

As it is today, there are 2.6 million single moms in the UK, and in certain London buroughs 47-48% of families are lead by single mothers.

The implications aren't kind with children in single-parent homes doing worse in school than those with married parents and also more likely to contract serious illnesses. Single mothers ... and fathers ... are also less healthy and are less likely to be in good financial shape than the married women.

For a hopeful look at where rocky starts can end up, this story about a street kid done good is pretty darned amazing.

Mario Capecchi saw his mother dragged away by the Gestapo in 1941 when he was just three-years-old, and after only a year of extended family care was tossed out to spend the rest of the war drifting from the streets into orphanages, then back to the streets again until his mother found him after she survived Dachau concentration camp.

Now 70, he has just won the Nobel Prize in medicine.

Wow.

You can never tell which kids are going to end up making the most amazing contributions to the world.