Gay Family Want 3 Parents For Child

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/092706parents.htm

In the first case of its kind in Canada, possibly the world, a court is being asked to designate a lesbian couple and their son's biological father all the boy's legal parents.

One partner, the biological mother, and the father already officially are the legal parents. The other partner is seeking to be named the third legal guardian.

Both biological parents support the application by the mother's partner. Since the case involves a minor the names of all involved are protected by the court.

Final submissions were made this week to the Ontario Court of Appeal - the highest court in Ontario.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

1. Sounds interesting, biological parents and the new spouse

Hmmm, wonder if you carried this across to Hetero remarriages as well? Sounds at first it wouldn't be a bad thing and less hassle than having to adopt with approval from the bioligical parent. But then what about 2+ divorces and 2+ marriages?

What a mess. Good intentions, but the administration of it becomes a nightmare (on the surface)

[sui generis]

2. at that point it's a contract marriage

more like a limited partnership with no managing entity. The only real problem with a "contract" marriage in the Heinlein sense is that at contract renewal time if any party is unhappy they abjure their rights and leave; not exactly an inducement to work things out, and also an inducement to create "cliques" within the marriage.

But overall I don't see anything at all wrong with it; I especially don't think that just because something might go wrong it's a reason to not do it at all.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

3. Hate to say it, 'think of the children'

ARGH! But having gone thru a nasty divorce and visitation and all those issues, it's difficult with two people.. add in another? My daughter was caught in the middle even though we tried our best to keep her out of it. Contracted Parenting, I don't know, it just sounds like a setup for failure. (I LOVE to be proven wrong in situations as these tho!)

We allow kids to declare emancipation / divorce their parents which I find disturbing as well. So in that light, I really dont see a being a 'social experiment' that I'm sure it will be called. We already have precedent of going outside the every day occurence of marriage/divorce