Adoption is the public's business. But as I said, it is a policy decision. If folks don't like it, vote the perps out. But in Britain, I don't see the votes being there, but I have not seen a poll.
Education is the public's business too.
Alexander Pope was "... a Roman Catholic when Catholics could neither attend universities nor hold public office..." ( Untermeyer )
I guess public offices are the public's business too!
I see us racing pell mell towards the same state of affairs, but now there is a Joker in the deck.