High Court Greenlights Mothers’ Legal Challenge Over 2-Child Limit ‘Rape Clause’

The High Court has given permission to two mothers who had children as a result of rape or coercion to legally challenge the rules around the two-child benefit limit policy. Both women became pregnant with two or more children non-consensually while in abusive relationships that began in their teenage years. The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) said that one of the women, known only as EFG, has four children, with the two eldest conceived through rape. Her two younger children were conceived in a later long-term and consensual relationship. The second woman, referred to in the case as LMN, has six children, who were conceived with abusive partners....