THREE- AND FOUR-PERSON MARRIAGES: Stanley Kurtz

...Judith Stacey, the Barbra Streisand Professor in Contemporary Gender Studies at USC, describes a three parent family--a lesbian couple and an inseminating gay man--that she would like to see get legal recognition. (There wasn't enough time for Stacey to present her example of a four parent family.) There's no real difference between Stacey's plea for recognition of triple or quadruple parent marriages and the pleas for recognition of same-sex marriage. ...

Judith Stacey’s plea for recognition of three and four person marriages is important, because she makes it in conjunction with a group of powerful professors of family law. But there's another sense in which Stacey’s campaign is not isolated. Check out this article from the Village Voice. Once gay marriage is safely in place, we'll be seeing a lot more articles like that. And the pleas for fairness and compassion for multi-parent gay families will be every bit as heartfelt as the pleas for two person gay marriage are now.

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