Another Brick in the Wall - Google Blogger

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"It is contrary to (the child's) best interests that he is deprived of
the legal recognition of the parentage of one of his mothers," Justice
Marc Rosenberg wrote in the ruling, which did not name the three parents
or the child.

...

The two women, who have been together since 1990, told the court they
did not want to adopt the child because it meant the father would lose
his status as a parent.
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And then of course, there are the naysayers...

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The Alliance for Marriage and Family, a coalition of several groups that
promote a traditional family structure, had filed as an intervenor in
the case.

"We think there are many good reasons for continuing to uphold the
definition of family as two parents," said Joanne McGarry, executive
director of the Catholic Civil Rights League, one of the groups
represented by the alliance.

"Once you remove it from the realm of nature and the realm of
traditional moral and religious teachings, who's going to decide how
many parents a child can have? What's so magical about three, maybe
there could be more."
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Remove it from the realm of nature? Say what now? What's unnatural
about a child having multiple caregivers? Perhaps Joanne McGarry should
take a very brief jaunt back in the history of Scotland, Ireland,
England and many other European countries and re-discover the rather
nifty notion of 'fostering'. The kind of fostering where a child would
be sent off to stay with other family to make them a more well rounded
person and expose them to new things. To broaden the mind. I suspect
Ms. McGarry's mind could be easily expanded using a Q-tip. Anything
would be an improvement.

As for the reference to 'traditional moral and religious teachings'...
give me a break. Traditional where? Is it her suggestion that we
ignore every other type of family unit arrangement in the world in
favour of the rather recent adoption (heh) of the so called traditional
family? Ms. McGarry comes off as a rather small minded racist eager to
ignore any reality that is not based in her religion and Euro-centric
view of people. Clearly those heathen Africans or Indians don't have
anything of value to add to the discussion.

As for who is going to decide how many parents a child can have, I'd say
that's up to the parents. And no, there is nothing magical about three.
I think a child could uniquely benefit from having even more dedicated
caregivers rather than being abandoned to the care of strangers in a day
care and being turned into a latchkey kid because the 'traditional' two
income family can barely make ends meet.

So shaddup and siddown Ms. McGarry. You and yours have a shrinking
place in the decisions of where our society is going.

A big hearty thank you to Justice Marc Rosenberg.