Sorry, I just loved that as a quote. Probably more a TB sort of thing.

Canadian court allows three parents

http://www.theage.com.au/news/World/Canadian-court-allows-three-parents/2007/01/04/1167777191089.html

A five-year-old Canadian boy can have two mothers and a father, an Ontario court ruled this week in a landmark case that redefines the meaning of family and examines the rights of parents in same-sex relationships.

In a ruling, the Ontario Court of Appeal said the female partner of the child's biological mother could be legally recognised as the boy's third parent.

The biological father, named on the boy's birth certificate, is a friend of both women and is taking an active role in the child's life.

"It is contrary to (the child's) best interests that he is deprived of the legal recognition of the parentage of one of his mothers," Justice Marc Rosenberg wrote in the ruling, which did not name the three parents or their child.

"Perhaps one of the greatest fears faced by lesbian mothers is the death of the birth mother... Without a declaration of parentage or some other order, the surviving partner would be unable to make decisions for their minor child."

So there are some laudable motives behind this, but it has not been well-received by the conservative commentator who is quoted. It's certainly, imho, an issue so fundamental that it should be a matter for the parliament, not the courts.