{"id":30953,"date":"2012-02-20T23:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T23:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/blurry_sexual_and_familial_linesi-lesbian_parents_betrayed_by_gay_dad_dema\/"},"modified":"2012-02-20T23:00:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T23:00:51","slug":"blurry_sexual_and_familial_linesi-lesbian_parents_betrayed_by_gay_dad_dema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30953","title":{"rendered":"Blurry Sexual and Familial Lines(I)&#8211;Lesbian parents &#39;betrayed&#39; by gay Dad demanding to see his son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A two-year-old boy with &#8220;three parents&#8221; &#8211; his lesbian mother, her partner and a gay father &#8211; is at the centre of an Appeal Court test case on the status of &#8220;alternative&#8221; families.<\/p>\n<p>The mother says she made a pact with the father during a restaurant meeting before the boy was conceived that she and her lover would fill the role of &#8220;primary parents&#8221; within a &#8220;nuclear family&#8221; and that he would not stand on his paternal rights.<\/p>\n<p>But now she and her partner say they feel &#8220;bitter and betrayed&#8221; after the father &#8211; a former close friend who attended the birth and held the new-born baby in his arms &#8211; demanded overnight and holiday contact with his biological son.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/law-and-order\/9064241\/Lesbian-parents-betrayed-by-gay-father-demanding-to-see-his-son.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A two-year-old boy with &#8220;three parents&#8221; &#8211; his lesbian mother, her partner and a gay father &#8211; is at the centre of an Appeal Court test case on the status of &#8220;alternative&#8221; families. The mother says she made a pact<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30953\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,576,101,199,104,114,96,98,129,95,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-children","category-england-uk","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}