Ruth Institute Blog

I am often told that we must redefine marriage to be the union of any two persons, in order to protect the interests of the children of same sex couples. Putting aside the important question of how a same sex couple acquires a child in the first place, my answer has always been that domestic partnership law accomplishes the goal. Here is a case that proves the point:

In a case that reached the U.S. Supreme Court, a Bay Area woman has won the right to parental status and visits with the daughter of her former lesbian partner, who moved out when the girl was 3 months old….
The women had lived together for nearly five years and were registered domestic partners when Kristina gave birth to Amalia by artificial insemination Read more…

That is what the AP calls it. But actually this dispute between two women will become more and more common, unfortunately.

A Santa Cruz court is slated to hear a custody dispute between former lesbian partners in which the biological mother has become romantically involved with the sperm donor father of her 10-month-old twins. Ah yes, the father: the forgotten figure in the demands that Presumption of Paternity be replaced by Presumption of Parenthood. Read more…