To consider the removal of parental responsibility for absent parents.

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Popularity

This petition has 4,242 signatures in total, with signatories from 617 constituencies. That makes it the 3,244th most popular petition of all time.

Geography

This petition has a Diversity Rating of 55% (low) and a Local Issue Rating of 42% (very high).

Signatures by Constituency

• 46 - Colchester
• 43 - Leigh
• 39 - Gloucester
• 36 - Blaenau Gwent
• 34 - Torbay
• 32 - Eastbourne
• 31 - Aberdeen North
• 30 - Cheltenham
• 29 - Bassetlaw
• 28 - High Peak
• 28 - Warwick and Leamington
• 27 - North Swindon
• 25 - Meriden
• 25 - Gainsborough
• 24 - Tewkesbury
• 24 - Blyth Valley
• 24 - North Thanet
• 23 - Vale of Clwyd
• 22 - Blackpool North and Cleveleys
• 21 - Llanelli
• 20 - Stroud
• 20 - Stirling
• 19 - Plymouth, Moor View
• 19 - Knowsley
• 19 - North East Cambridgeshire
• 19 - Rochford and Southend East
• 19 - Totnes
• 19 - Darlington
• 18 - Wythenshawe and Sale East
• 18 - Washington and Sunderland West
• 18 - Cynon Valley
• 17 - Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
• 17 - Swansea East
• 17 - Canterbury
• 17 - Leicester South
• 17 - Neath
• 17 - Hastings and Rye
• 16 - Paisley and Renfrewshire North
• 16 - Witham
• 16 - Harwich and North Essex
• 16 - Kingston upon Hull North
• 16 - North Devon
• 16 - Harlow
• 16 - Thurrock
• 15 - Rhondda
• 15 - Hemel Hempstead
• 15 - Kingston upon Hull East
• 15 - South West Norfolk
• 15 - Bracknell
• 15 - Islwyn
• 15 - North West Leicestershire
• 15 - Beverley and Holderness
• 15 - Basildon and Billericay
• 14 - Milton Keynes South
• 14 - Banbury
• 14 - Taunton Deane
• 14 - Barnsley East
• 14 - Monmouth
• 14 - Telford
• 13 - South Swindon
• 13 - Dagenham and Rainham
• 13 - Preseli Pembrokeshire
• 13 - Banff and Buchan
• 13 - Jarrow
• 13 - Blackpool South
• 13 - North Durham
• 13 - Gravesham
• 13 - Caerphilly
• 13 - Newport East
• 13 - Newcastle-under-Lyme
• 13 - Walsall North
• 12 - Batley and Spen
• 12 - Worthing West
• 12 - Lincoln
• 12 - Basingstoke
• 12 - Rayleigh and Wickford
• 12 - Birmingham, Hodge Hill
• 12 - North Ayrshire and Arran
• 12 - St Austell and Newquay
• 12 - Mid Norfolk
• 12 - Gillingham and Rainham
• 12 - Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire
• 12 - Southampton, Itchen
• 11 - Leeds East
• 11 - Peterborough
• 11 - Ogmore
• 11 - Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
• 11 - Angus
• 11 - Stoke-on-Trent Central
• 11 - City of Durham
• 11 - South Basildon and East Thurrock
• 11 - Glasgow South West
• 11 - Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
• 11 - Bridgwater and West Somerset
• 11 - Waveney
• 11 - Wrexham
• 11 - Rotherham
• 11 - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney
• 11 - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle
• 11 - Scunthorpe
• 11 - Doncaster Central
• 11 - Wolverhampton North East
• 11 - Cannock Chase
• 11 - Swansea West
• 10 - Wentworth and Dearne
• 10 - Stoke-on-Trent South
• 10 - St Albans
• 10 - Kettering
• 10 - East Worthing and Shoreham
• 10 - Vale of Glamorgan
• 10 - Twickenham
• 10 - Doncaster North
• 10 - Derby North
• 10 - Great Grimsby
• 10 - Ashford
• 10 - Barnsley Central
• 10 - Pontypridd
• 10 - Burton
• 10 - Boston and Skegness
• 10 - Castle Point
• 10 - West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
• 10 - Blaydon
• 10 - South Suffolk
• 10 - Salisbury
• 10 - Chesterfield
• 10 - Bradford West
• 10 - Sedgefield
• 10 - Portsmouth North
• 10 - Wellingborough
• 10 - Newton Abbot
• 10 - Clacton
• 10 - Birkenhead
• 9 - West Bromwich West
• 9 - North Tyneside
• 9 - Hemsworth
• 9 - West Suffolk
• 9 - Rochester and Strood
• 9 - North Warwickshire
• 9 - Bradford East
• 9 - Gateshead
• 9 - Braintree
• 9 - Forest of Dean
• 9 - Torfaen
• 9 - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford
• 9 - Halifax
• 9 - Aberavon
• 9 - Scarborough and Whitby
• 9 - Rugby
• 9 - Slough
• 9 - South Norfolk
• 9 - South Thanet
• 9 - Derby South
• 9 - Huddersfield
• 9 - Beaconsfield
• 9 - Dover
• 9 - Wolverhampton South East
• 9 - Redditch
• 9 - Easington
• 9 - Milton Keynes North
• 9 - Sherwood
• 9 - Selby and Ainsty
• 8 - Henley
• 8 - Isle of Wight
• 8 - Norwich North
• 8 - Stockport
• 8 - Southampton, Test
• 8 - Thirsk and Malton
• 8 - South West Bedfordshire
• 8 - Romford
• 8 - Rother Valley
• 8 - Liverpool, West Derby
• 8 - North Cornwall
• 8 - Leeds Central
• 8 - Sunderland Central
• 8 - Hornchurch and Upminster
• 8 - Luton South
• 8 - Barrow and Furness
• 8 - Bolsover
• 8 - Newport West
• 8 - Clwyd West
• 8 - Bradford South
• 8 - Enfield North
• 8 - Edinburgh West
• 8 - Paisley and Renfrewshire South
• 8 - Coventry North East
• 8 - Don Valley
• 8 - Moray
• 8 - Glasgow North East
• 8 - Lanark and Hamilton East
• 8 - Blackburn
• 8 - Faversham and Mid Kent
• 8 - Garston and Halewood
• 8 - Corby
• 8 - Ashton-under-Lyne
• 8 - Daventry
• 8 - Camborne and Redruth
• 8 - Ceredigion
• 8 - Clwyd South
• 7 - Aberdeen South
• 7 - Sittingbourne and Sheppey
• 7 - South Shields
• 7 - Carshalton and Wallington
• 7 - Norwich South
• 7 - Chesham and Amersham
• 7 - South East Cambridgeshire
• 7 - Colne Valley
• 7 - Lewes
• 7 - Maldon
• 7 - Lichfield
• 7 - Chelmsford
• 7 - South West Wiltshire
• 7 - Maidstone and The Weald
• 7 - Sheffield South East
• 7 - North West Hampshire
• 7 - Ashfield
• 7 - Bexhill and Battle
• 7 - Birmingham, Northfield
• 7 - Birmingham, Selly Oak
• 7 - North Dorset
• 7 - Bolton North East
• 7 - Bournemouth East
• 7 - Aldridge-Brownhills
• 7 - Morecambe and Lunesdale
• 7 - Ynys Môn
• 7 - Rutland and Melton
• 7 - Broxbourne
• 7 - Ochil and South Perthshire
• 7 - Linlithgow and East Falkirk
• 7 - Bury St Edmunds
• 7 - North West Norfolk
• 7 - East Londonderry
• 7 - Crewe and Nantwich
• 7 - Wyre Forest
• 7 - Suffolk Coastal
• 7 - Stoke-on-Trent North
• 7 - Worsley and Eccles South
• 7 - Eastleigh
• 7 - Dudley South
• 7 - Hartlepool
• 7 - Tynemouth
• 7 - Preston
• 7 - West Bromwich East
• 7 - Fareham
• 7 - Warley
• 7 - Heywood and Middleton
• 7 - Fylde
• 7 - Wantage
• 6 - Newcastle upon Tyne Central
• 6 - Bournemouth West
• 6 - Wansbeck
• 6 - Rossendale and Darwen
• 6 - Mid Worcestershire
• 6 - Rochdale
• 6 - Cardiff North
• 6 - West Dorset
• 6 - Ellesmere Port and Neston
• 6 - Cardiff Central
• 6 - Filton and Bradley Stoke
• 6 - Harborough
• 6 - Nuneaton
• 6 - Arundel and South Downs
• 6 - Oldham East and Saddleworth
• 6 - Great Yarmouth
• 6 - Penistone and Stocksbridge
• 6 - Cardiff South and Penarth
• 6 - Bexleyheath and Crayford
• 6 - North East Somerset
• 6 - Witney
• 6 - Reading East
• 6 - Wallasey
• 6 - Feltham and Heston
• 6 - Wakefield
• 6 - Gosport
• 6 - Calder Valley
• 6 - Leeds West
• 6 - Gordon
• 6 - Workington
• 6 - Houghton and Sunderland South
• 6 - South East Cornwall
• 6 - Yeovil
• 6 - Coventry South
• 6 - Dewsbury
• 6 - Liverpool, Riverside
• 6 - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
• 6 - Ipswich
• 6 - South West Devon
• 6 - Southend West
• 6 - Wigan
• 6 - Mansfield
• 6 - East Devon
• 6 - Weston-super-Mare
• 6 - The Cotswolds
• 6 - East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
• 6 - Chatham and Aylesford
• 5 - Bridgend
• 5 - Pendle
• 5 - West Ham
• 5 - Strangford
• 5 - Belfast West
• 5 - Foyle
• 5 - South Antrim
• 5 - Belfast North
• 5 - Orpington
• 5 - Central Ayrshire
• 5 - Dunfermline and West Fife
• 5 - Wells
• 5 - Rutherglen and Hamilton West
• 5 - Weaver Vale
• 5 - Tonbridge and Malling
• 5 - Welwyn Hatfield
• 5 - Sheffield, Heeley
• 5 - Tamworth
• 5 - Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
• 5 - Tunbridge Wells
• 5 - Glasgow East
• 5 - The Wrekin
• 5 - Stretford and Urmston
• 5 - Wyre and Preston North
• 5 - Rushcliffe
• 5 - Brentwood and Ongar
• 5 - Chorley
• 5 - Ludlow
• 5 - Middlesbrough
• 5 - Central Suffolk and North Ipswich
• 5 - Manchester Central
• 5 - Dudley North
• 5 - Chichester
• 5 - North East Bedfordshire
• 5 - Denton and Reddish
• 5 - Hendon
• 5 - Horsham
• 5 - Cleethorpes
• 5 - Coventry North West
• 5 - Hereford and South Herefordshire
• 5 - Epping Forest
• 5 - Epsom and Ewell
• 5 - Broadland
• 5 - Northampton North
• 5 - Amber Valley
• 5 - Barking
• 5 - Bishop Auckland
• 5 - Blackley and Broughton
• 5 - Hackney South and Shoreditch
• 5 - North West Durham
• 5 - Brentford and Isleworth
• 5 - Crawley
• 5 - Loughborough
• 5 - New Forest East
• 5 - Walsall South
• 5 - Brigg and Goole
• 4 - South Staffordshire
• 4 - Halesowen and Rowley Regis
• 4 - Uxbridge and South Ruislip
• 4 - Tiverton and Honiton
• 4 - Havant
• 4 - Hertford and Stortford
• 4 - South West Hertfordshire
• 4 - Leicester East
• 4 - Spelthorne
• 4 - St Helens South and Whiston
• 4 - Islington South and Finsbury
• 4 - Stockton North
• 4 - Stockton South
• 4 - Stourbridge
• 4 - Stratford-on-Avon
• 4 - Kingston and Surbiton
• 4 - Leicester West
• 4 - Warrington South
• 4 - Esher and Walton
• 4 - Edinburgh South
• 4 - Glenrothes
• 4 - Carlisle
• 4 - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
• 4 - Kilmarnock and Loudoun
• 4 - Burnley
• 4 - Bromsgrove
• 4 - Alyn and Deeside
• 4 - Gower
• 4 - Brighton, Kemptown
• 4 - Edinburgh North and Leith
• 4 - West Dunbartonshire
• 4 - Aldershot
• 4 - Erewash
• 4 - Eddisbury
• 4 - Woking
• 4 - Worcester
• 4 - York Central
• 4 - Cardiff West
• 4 - North Down
• 4 - Congleton
• 4 - City of Chester
• 4 - Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
• 4 - Bootle
• 4 - Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
• 4 - Runnymede and Weybridge
• 4 - Makerfield
• 4 - North Norfolk
• 4 - South Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Shipley
• 4 - Old Bexley and Sidcup
• 4 - South Northamptonshire
• 4 - Mid Sussex
• 4 - Saffron Walden
• 4 - Oldham West and Royton
• 4 - Sleaford and North Hykeham
• 4 - North West Cambridgeshire
• 4 - Salford and Eccles
• 4 - North East Derbyshire
• 4 - South Dorset
• 4 - Pudsey
• 4 - South Leicestershire
• 4 - North East Hertfordshire
• 4 - Oxford East
• 4 - Newcastle upon Tyne East
• 4 - Louth and Horncastle
• 4 - Nottingham East
• 4 - Manchester, Gorton
• 4 - Northampton South
• 4 - North Somerset
• 3 - East Renfrewshire
• 3 - Cambridge
• 3 - Central Devon
• 3 - Wealden
• 3 - Exeter
• 3 - Glasgow North West
• 3 - Edinburgh East
• 3 - Folkestone and Hythe
• 3 - Glasgow Central
• 3 - Charnwood
• 3 - Haltemprice and Howden
• 3 - Manchester, Withington
• 3 - Glasgow South
• 3 - Guildford
• 3 - East Lothian
• 3 - Newcastle upon Tyne North
• 3 - Dundee East
• 3 - Mitcham and Morden
• 3 - Devizes
• 3 - South Down
• 3 - Mid Ulster
• 3 - Croydon North
• 3 - Mole Valley
• 3 - Airdrie and Shotts
• 3 - Wirral West
• 3 - Richmond (Yorks)
• 3 - Elmet and Rothwell
• 3 - Eltham
• 3 - North Antrim
• 3 - Redcar
• 3 - West Worcestershire
• 3 - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
• 3 - Wimbledon
• 3 - Ribble Valley
• 3 - Lagan Valley
• 3 - Solihull
• 3 - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport
• 3 - Perth and North Perthshire
• 3 - Staffordshire Moorlands
• 3 - Lewisham West and Penge
• 3 - Bristol South
• 3 - Somerton and Frome
• 3 - Hyndburn
• 3 - Bermondsey and Old Southwark
• 3 - Luton North
• 3 - North Herefordshire
• 3 - South Derbyshire
• 3 - Stevenage
• 3 - Birmingham, Erdington
• 3 - Stalybridge and Hyde
• 3 - Birmingham, Ladywood
• 3 - Bath
• 3 - Truro and Falmouth
• 3 - Tottenham
• 3 - Torridge and West Devon
• 3 - Midlothian
• 3 - Bedford
• 3 - Richmond Park
• 3 - Hayes and Harlington
• 3 - Motherwell and Wishaw
• 3 - Thornbury and Yate
• 3 - North East Fife
• 3 - Hexham
• 3 - Aylesbury
• 3 - Ross, Skye and Lochaber
• 3 - Livingston
• 2 - Buckingham
• 2 - Nottingham North
• 2 - Birmingham, Yardley
• 2 - Birmingham, Edgbaston
• 2 - Upper Bann
• 2 - Bethnal Green and Bow
• 2 - Bury South
• 2 - East Antrim
• 2 - Romsey and Southampton North
• 2 - Brecon and Radnorshire
• 2 - Christchurch
• 2 - Argyll and Bute
• 2 - Poole
• 2 - Falkirk
• 2 - Putney
• 2 - North East Hampshire
• 2 - Broxtowe
• 2 - Chelsea and Fulham
• 2 - Brent North
• 2 - Brent Central
• 2 - Reading West
• 2 - Morley and Outwood
• 2 - Dumfries and Galloway
• 2 - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
• 2 - Bolton West
• 2 - Chipping Barnet
• 2 - North Wiltshire
• 2 - Nottingham South
• 2 - Bury North
• 2 - Surrey Heath
• 2 - Hackney North and Stoke Newington
• 2 - Harrogate and Knaresborough
• 2 - Southport
• 2 - Greenwich and Woolwich
• 2 - Grantham and Stamford
• 2 - Warrington North
• 2 - Tatton
• 2 - Kingswood
• 2 - Watford
• 2 - Lancaster and Fleetwood
• 2 - Kenilworth and Southam
• 2 - Sheffield Central
• 2 - St Helens North
• 2 - Sutton and Cheam
• 2 - Huntingdon
• 2 - Hertsmere
• 2 - Maidenhead
• 2 - Skipton and Ripon
• 2 - Tooting
• 2 - Harrow East
• 2 - Ilford South
• 2 - Islington North
• 2 - Hammersmith
• 2 - Mid Dorset and North Poole
• 2 - Meon Valley
• 2 - East Hampshire
• 2 - Croydon Central
• 2 - South Ribble
• 2 - Ealing North
• 2 - Leyton and Wanstead
• 2 - Ealing Central and Acton
• 2 - Belfast East
• 2 - Wolverhampton South West
• 2 - Croydon South
• 2 - Hove
• 2 - Liverpool, Walton
• 2 - Wokingham
• 2 - Dartford
• 2 - East Surrey
• 2 - South Holland and The Deepings
• 2 - Winchester
• 2 - Windsor
• 2 - East Ham
• 2 - Ealing, Southall
• 1 - Altrincham and Sale West
• 1 - North Shropshire
• 1 - Bristol North West
• 1 - Streatham
• 1 - Birmingham, Perry Barr
• 1 - Bristol East
• 1 - Penrith and The Border
• 1 - Brighton, Pavilion
• 1 - South West Surrey
• 1 - Stone
• 1 - Leeds North East
• 1 - Lewisham East
• 1 - Montgomeryshire
• 1 - Beckenham
• 1 - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
• 1 - Lewisham, Deptford
• 1 - Berwick-upon-Tweed
• 1 - St Ives
• 1 - Stafford
• 1 - Bosworth
• 1 - Liverpool, Wavertree
• 1 - Leeds North West
• 1 - Delyn
• 1 - Macclesfield
• 1 - Gedling
• 1 - Mid Derbyshire
• 1 - Erith and Thamesmead
• 1 - Edmonton
• 1 - West Lancashire
• 1 - East Yorkshire
• 1 - Westminster North
• 1 - Chippenham
• 1 - Wirral South
• 1 - Cities of London and Westminster
• 1 - West Tyrone
• 1 - Derbyshire Dales
• 1 - Newbury
• 1 - Newry and Armagh
• 1 - Copeland
• 1 - Mid Bedfordshire
• 1 - Cheadle
• 1 - Glasgow North
• 1 - Shrewsbury and Atcham
• 1 - Bristol West
• 1 - Hornsey and Wood Green
• 1 - Bromley and Chislehurst
• 1 - Holborn and St Pancras
• 1 - Hitchin and Harpenden
• 1 - Sheffield, Hallam
• 1 - Walthamstow
• 1 - Hampstead and Kilburn
• 1 - Camberwell and Peckham
• 1 - Poplar and Limehouse
• 1 - Halton
• 1 - Inverclyde
• 1 - Portsmouth South
• 1 - Vauxhall
• 1 - Belfast South

Signatures by Region

• 532 - South East
• 493 - East of England
• 466 - South West
• 402 - North West
• 398 - Wales
• 389 - Yorkshire and The Humber
• 382 - West Midlands
• 324 - East Midlands
• 312 - Scotland
• 233 - North East
• 197 - London
• 57 - Northern Ireland

Signatures by Country

• 4,239 - United Kingdom
• 1 - Australia
• 1 - Spain
• 1 - Ireland