[AnnieK]

When I was looking into adoption, a couple at the meetings had been told they couldn't adopt because they guy had an assault conviction for a drunken bar fight years before. I thought that was a little unfair, it was many years before and a one off, nothing to do with children (he actually had children from a previous relationship). They were gutted that that one mistake meant they couldn't give a child a warm loving home.

Anyone with previous records against children obviously should be a definite NO