The Atlantic has a major story on Sept. 24, 2020, “The
Rise of the Three-Parent Family” by Angela Chen. The URL reads “how to build a
3-parent family”.
The practice of setting up trio legal agreements has
been developing for some time, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area, but
has not been well known. It was discussed this morning (Oct. 9) on ABC Good Morning
America.
The article gives a biographical story of Jay, who
says he is asexual, but is still the biological father of a child of a married
couple with whom he shares legal custody.
It is not clear how many states allow this.
Jay had written a senior thesis on what differentiates
sexual from non-sexual relationships (it would be nice if The Atlantic could link
to a pdf of that thesis).
The article doesn’t get that much into co-parents who
are not biological parents at all (possibly gay men especially). My perception is that the concept could be
used to encourage more people to share the cost of child rearing given so much
economic and social inequality, and it could be encouraged to cross racial
lines (it could be viewed as an anti-racist idea).
On the other hand, it bemuses the conservative idea of
the traditional two-parent family.
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