The real issue here is being overlooked, said one commentator, as three men who are listed as the legal parents of two children born to surrogate mothers bask in the glow of their fame, as reported by The Western Journal.
The term “throuple” is “the inevitable result of centering all legal and cultural conversations about family around the desires of adults,” said Katy Faust, founder of the children’s rights organization Them Before Us.
The real issue should be the children, not the men who acquired legal rights to be named parents.
“That slippery slope of ‘if the adults are happy the children will be happy’ which began with no-fault divorce, normalized single mothers by choice, insisted gender is irrelevant to parenting during the gay marriage debate, is now championing male throuples raising motherless children,” she said.
“Until we recognize that children have a natural and fundamental right to be known and loved by both their mother and father, you can expect more wild variations of the modern family, as children become the acceptable sacrifice on the pyre of adult desires,” she said.
Ian Jenkins, who authored a book titled “Three Dads and a Baby” based upon the experience of having three gay men legally adopt a child, joined the other two members of the “throuple,” Alan Mayfield and Jeremy Allen Hodges, recently for a stint on Australia’s “Morning Show.” They were making a publicity stop for the book, which goes on sale March 9.
“We weren’t sure that we could have all three of us on the birth certificate so it became a court process,” Mayfield said during the February 16th interview, according to The Christian Post
The men claimed there was a valid legal argument at stake.
“If our child, God forbid, was to end up in the hospital, one of the parents might not be able to go visit them,” Hodges said.
“It was a pretty interesting, tense courtroom scene where at first it seemed we were not going to be granted that and we asked to speak in court and plead our viewpoint and the judge ultimately changed her mind and granted us legal parentage for our child before she was born,” he said.
“It was really important to be recognized as the family that we are, and, thankfully, we live in California, which is a state that, after some teeth pulling and fighting, actually did then allow us to do that, so that was amazing,” he said.
The men were named the legal parents to a first child, a girl named Piper, in 2017. They are now also the legal parents of a boy, Parker. The children are half-siblings, carried by a surrogate mother from embryos donated by a friend who fertilized her eggs through in vitro fertilization, according to HuffPost.
What say you Def-Con News readers? Call me narrow minded, however, I can’t wrap my head around this. Throuples have likely been around since before Sodom and Gamorrah or even since Sumer, the first known complex civilization, however, to label them ‘families’ and to allow adoption of children in the mix is beyond my mental grasp. America is becoming “curiouser and curiouser.” Thank you California.
