Oh, hey, look at that

[highlyeccentric]

The Family Court has resolved a custody dispute for a same-sex family: specifically, ruled that in this case, the child must spend time with all four of his parents (two gay men in a committed relationship, and two gay women in a committed relationship).

Stressing that the case was not about the socio-politics of single-sex parents or the definition of a nuclear family, she ruled that the boy should spend time with all four adults.

''E is the product of a number of fine people,'' she said in a recent judgment. ''He is entitled to know about them, to know them, and to know their love of him.''

I don't know if we had any precedents for this sort of thing before, but, well, we do now. And the decision appears - from the newspaper report - to have been made not on the assumption that a child needs two parents, or that a child needs male and female parents, but, y'know, that it's in the child's *interest* (which is actually different from 'needs') to have all of his parents. How remarkably even-handed.

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[be_themoon]

That is pretty fabulous. :D