I came across a Huffington Post article about a baby, in British Columbia, Vancouver, who has three parents.
The baby girl is the product of a lesbian couple, who used the sperm of a close male friend to conceive. Legally, both women are financially responsible for and will have custody of the child. The male donor is considered a legal guardian with rights to access. Logistics of the family were drafted in contracts before the baby was actually conceived, as is required by the British Columbia’s Family Law Act-effective March 2013.
Homosexuality is something that’s excessively and passionately debated from both sides in the United States, so I’m assuming that there was both, positive and negative feedback when people got wind of this story. Here, in America, we’re only recently opening the can of worms that is allowing homosexuals to be married. Dealing with the topic of them being able to raise children is another hot button debate.
I however, believe the United States should follow the example that Vancouver has just set.
People are going to fight it, just as they fought and are still fighting homosexual marriage. But at the end of the day, the same question arises–with the exception of harm being done to a child, in what way is another family’s home life the business of the rest of America?
Besides, I’ve heard over and over in my life that “it takes a village to raise a child.” Is that only so when said village walks the tightrope that is society’s definition of “normal.”
A lot of people who are against homosexuals having children or adopting like to argue that every child needs a mother and father figure in their life. To this point, I absolutely agree, because I think men and women bring different things to a child’s life. Things that they’re counterpart can’t. That being said, that mother figure does not have to be a biological parent and neither does the father figure. A father figure can be an uncle, an older cousin, a grandfather. While the role of mother can be played by a step-mom, aunt, a grandmother. As long as the child has everything that both can offer, there should be no debate.
For the people who think this specific case is a horrible incident, this child isn’t lacking anything that traditional naysayers of homosexuals raising children like to say a child needs. She has a father figure, who has not only agreed, but has signed a legally binding contract to be present in her life. She has not one, but two mothers. So what is she missing? In theory, she was born equipped with more than the average baby.
This little girl, has three parents and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. The third is simply another person to comfort her, another ear to listen or shoulder to cry on. One more person in her corner. Another human being rooting for her.
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