An MP has called on Coronation Street to stop using outdated 'custody battle' language in family breakdown plotlines. Siobhan Baillie has said she is concerned about how arrangements for children are portrayed as a 'war to be won' in soap operas such as Corrie and EastEnders.
She highlights a plot in EastEnders, where Phil Mitchell had a so-called 'custody battle' over his son Raymond, and another in Coronation Street involving Fiz Stape and Tyrone Dobbs. The MP for Stroud and a former family law solicitor said society, the media and courts needed to move away from adversarial language.
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