Let's check in on our neighbors to the north and their courts to see what's going on there.
I guess that's what the "+" stands for?
Polygamy isn't legal, exactly, but the courts in Quebec will recognize "throuples" and other multi-parent families.
Welcome to Quebec, I guess.
A recent court ruling in Quebec has granted multi-parental families in the province the same legal rights as any other unit.
A Quebec Superior Court judge ruled on Friday that limiting the legal affiliation of children to one or two parents is unconstitutional.
I know Canada's constitution isn't that old, but I HIGHLY doubt the framers thought that it would be "unconstitutional" to limit parental rights to moms and/or dads.
But we're in Clown World™ today.
Lawyer Marc-André Landry, who represented one of the families involved in the case, explains the ruling does not apply to step-parents or other 'modern' families that are formed after a child is born ...
'It's not about step-parents or other potential realities, it's really about three people sitting together and saying, "We should have a child together,''' he explains. 'No one should be treated differently because of their family status.''
Just so we're clear, the case we are dealing with in Quebec was already messed up beyond parody. To think of the kids at the center of this makes one sick.
There were three families who were part of the case, according to Landry.
The first constitutes a 'throuple,' three adults - a man and two women - in a relationship, with four children among them.
The second involves a lesbian couple and a male donor who wished to be part of the child's life as a father figure.
The third includes a woman living with infertility who allowed her husband to have a child with a friend, who asked to remain on as a mother.
And, somehow, the throuple won the case...
What a time to be alive.
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