Should he get three parents?

These children has three parents, but only two of them can be parents in legal sense. That will Norwegian Labour party (AP) family commission change.

We’re proud of our family and will really show it, say “Helen” who Dagsavisen meets with her girlfriend and their two children.

In this article the names are changed for those involved as requested by them. They still experience that they run a risk of having organised their family outside legal boundaries.

“Julia” and “Helen” met in San Francisco in 2009 and began early to talk about that they wanted to start a family. “Julia ‘s male best friend” Matt “would also be a parent, and the three decided that they wanted to have children together. The mothers have given birth to a child each, and allowed by arrangement with “Matt”  to state that he is the father. They had to do that to ensure that the two as everyday parents got the necessary legal rights to the children.

The legal framework can only accommodate either I or “Matt” as parents, I and “Julia” or “Julia” and “Matt.” But we are three. Therefore it is so important that some of our elected officials now think again, say “Helen.”

Norwegian Labour Party’s (AP) family commission has in fact advocated that children should be able to have more than two legal parents.

– We are aware that this is controversial. But what we now propose is that the children’s real parents actually be recognised as that – parents. Currently working for this, just like other taboo has fallen in recent decades, says Martin Henriksen, head of Labour’s family commission.

The Commission has not set a limit on how many people will be able to become legal parents.

(Norwegian Labour Party = Arbeiderpartiet = AP).

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