BRAVE NEW FAMILIES

As I pointed out earlier, marriage per se, will not resolve the tangled web of legal uncertainty in deciding which of people involved in creating or loving a child in alternative families has parental status. For a look at how the law is developing in Scotland. go here. Anyone else wonder how gay men who father a baby like being described as sperm donors? Just because the mom(s) do not want a father around? Excerpt:

A LESBIAN couple have made legal history by winning the same parental rights over each other's children as a heterosexual married couple. The decision gives them greater rights in law than unmarried fathers.

One of the women has a four-year-old son from a previous marriage, and the second woman, a 30-year-old teacher, has an eight-month-old baby fathered by an anonymous sperm donor.

In the first ruling of its kind in Scotland, Sheriff Noel McPartlin agreed last week to give both women rights over both children. The older boy now has three legally recognised parents.

A different view was taken in a court case in Glasgow last month when a sheriff ruled that two lesbian women did not constitute a proper family unit and granted parental rights to the sperm donor who helped them have a child.

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