Florida Judge Approves Birth Certificate Listing Three Parents
Source: Reuters
Florida judge approves birth certificate listing three parents
MIAMI | Thu Feb 7, 2013 6:35pm EST
By Kevin Gray
MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida judge has approved the adoption of a 22-month-old baby girl that will list three people as parents on her birth certificate -- a married lesbian couple and a gay man.
The decision ends a two-year paternity fight between the couple and a friend of the women who donated his sperm to father the child but later sought a larger role in the girl's life.
The ruling means the child's birth certificate will include a biological father and both women as parents in an unusual arrangement approved recently by a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge.
The women, Maria Italiano, 43, and Cher Filippazzo, 38, had made several unsuccessful attempts to become parents using fertility clinics.
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Warpy
(111,274 posts)All the fundies in the rest of the state are going to be freaking out over this one.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Octomom's babies will list 14 parents ....
MADem
(135,425 posts)I do think children have a right to know--if the parents know--where their genetic code came from.
Not really sure about the rest; I suppose "it depends."
It's certainly complex.
LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)If the government can reduce the likelihood of providing financial aid all the better. It increases the odds that the child will not suffer due to economics and has more interested in its well-being.
If by chance one of them get "divorced" the court will have an interesting decision to make. Or what happens if one of the remaining female remarries how does that get resolved?
RobinA
(9,893 posts)This opens the door to all kind of hairsplitting that will eventually make birth certificates useless for what they were intended for - to show a birth and the child's bio parents.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)It lists my adoptive parents.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)There is no need for any other information. Custody and visitation issues should be decided by a family court judge according to the child's best interests. What is on the birth certificate is immaterial.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)It lists only my adoptive parents.