Would this really be to the good? Gay relationships can, of course, be solid and lasting, but the reality is that most last less long than normal marriages. The Government’s plans to place gay parents on the same basis in law as heterosexual parents is based on a fantasy that one relationship is as good as another for bringing up children. Wishful thinking is a bad basis for law.
I’m not sure either that Mr Bathie’s attempt to write himself out of his children’s lives deserves much sympathy. What he is trying to do is turn fatherhood into gamete donation. But ministers are, in other contexts, straining every nerve to try to make men take fatherhood more seriously. Even those shy souls who donate sperm for money at fertility clinics are being told that the products of their sperm will have the right to turn up on their doorstep and call them Daddy.
Men have often tried to evade the responsibilities of paternity. Only now is the Government in its new Bill trying by law to help them to do it.
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I will consider posting comments on this article submitted first by email to Kendall’s E-mail: KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com.
Melanie McDonagh: Two mums ”” and a runaway dad
Would this really be to the good? Gay relationships can, of course, be solid and lasting, but the reality is that most last less long than normal marriages. The Government’s plans to place gay parents on the same basis in law as heterosexual parents is based on a fantasy that one relationship is as good as another for bringing up children. Wishful thinking is a bad basis for law.
I’m not sure either that Mr Bathie’s attempt to write himself out of his children’s lives deserves much sympathy. What he is trying to do is turn fatherhood into gamete donation. But ministers are, in other contexts, straining every nerve to try to make men take fatherhood more seriously. Even those shy souls who donate sperm for money at fertility clinics are being told that the products of their sperm will have the right to turn up on their doorstep and call them Daddy.
Men have often tried to evade the responsibilities of paternity. Only now is the Government in its new Bill trying by law to help them to do it.
Read it all.
I will consider posting comments on this article submitted first by email to Kendall’s E-mail: KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com.