Newsround is fine with stories about traditional families.

Michelle, Barack and Malia Obama

As yet, though, there's no sign of the children's channel heeding the Director-General's advice about the topic of 'gay marriage'

The Scottish government's imminent decision on whether to legislate for marriage equality was widely discussed on news channels yesterday. The decision would have been amongst yesterday's main news headlines. But in the end the Scottish cabinet chose to postpone their announcement till later this month. Newsround is pretty adept at avoiding LGBT-related news and CBBC bosses, no doubt, breathed a sigh of relief at the deferment.