WHO'S WHO AND WHAT'S WHAT

摘要

'DADDY...where do I come from?' Ah, the question that will have the face of any parent frozen momentarily as they assess the knock-on implications of the statement 'From mummy's tummy.' But just as Angus Dawson explains in this month's legal column (p.56), 'the questions which ought to be the simplest prove the most difficult to answer'. I remember, aged nine, listening to our teacher Sister Lawrence explaining the facts of life to us; I came away from that with a vision of... well, I'd better not say. The reality, when I found out, was no less traumatic, but I digress...