The child with two mothers and two fathers who went to court over her
failure of a judge of the High Court demonstrates the importance of the decision on the role of parents before embarking on artificial insemination
P is an unhappy 10 year old daughter. At school, she cries in the bathroom and be consoled by her friend. She "suffered extensive damage due to emotional conflicts raging around at least for the last three years," said a senior judge.
problem is that she has two mothers. P RSF knows that his mother and civil society of his mother BS, couples are her family and she is happy with that.
What makes it so miserable P Is and six years old, sister of L also have two parents. P likes to see ML and AR long-term partner. But according to an adult who looked after the age of 10, a few months ago, "she can not claim that ML is his father, to please him."
Except it is. ML, 50, is actually the biological father of two daughters. They were conceived through in vitro fertilization after a couple of lesbians (as they describe themselves) announced in the Pink Book in 1999 for a gay man or couple who want to start a family with them.
The problem is that Justice Hedley four adults failed to decide at this point what their respective roles. It was agreed that the ML, which is of Polish origin, was the father of the child and his partner, AR 41, would be the stepfather. However, this leads to two couples at the court was the effect of these terms are intended to have.
The two women tried to keep more of the identity of the child. But both men say that ML is in the same position as one of the parents separate traditional and therefore the right to contact regularly.
While thinking through the issues, Hedley developed a new legal concept: Parenting primary and secondary. In an anonymous, published this week revealed that the two women to be parents of young girls and two leaders from their parents of high school.
It was not an attempt to write the mothers and fathers of the script or to redefine their traditional roles. It was simply a recognition of the relationship that the four adults had chosen for themselves.
Hedley was a sage. Referring to the emotional distress of children, the judge said it must follow that "the four adults in this case on the price paid for these two children, an acceptable price for the exercise of their own conflicts of adults ".
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