Children in Quebec can have more than two parents, according to a Superior Court decision that now gives the provincial government 12 months to amend the Civil Code to legally recognize this type of family structure.
In a ruling issued on Thursday, Judge Andres C. Garin examined complaints from two separate cases.
The plaintiffs in those cases were La Coalition des familles LGBT+ — a group that seeks to have all families recognized regardless of how they’re formed — as well as three families who were unable to put the names of three parents on their children’s birth certificates.
The judge determined that the Civil Code’s inability to legally recognize multi-parent families violates the complainants’ Canadian Charter right to equality.
News that’ll be a shot in the arm for communities like Bountiful, BC. As opposed to the usual kind.
The problem with Mormon fundamentalist polygamy was never the polyamory, it was the rape, incest, and pedophilia.
EXACTLY
They’re all going to migrate to Quebec, the new holy land of polygamy.
This also creates problems if step parents have equal rights to biological parents. Poisoning the well is real and I know someone who pays child support to their kid’s step parent, after they divorced. Will this just create a culture of sugar mommas and daddies and whoever bullshits the best gets all the benefits?
I don’t know the specifics of the law and I can’t see the future but this looks messy.