Three dads, four mothers? What’s next?
I consider myself to be a pretty liberal kind of guy, but this proposed legislation has me a bit uneasy. The bill, currently making its way through the Calfornia legislature, would give children the right to legally have more than two parents. State Senator Mark Leno, a Democrat (what else?) from San Francisco, says that “The bill brings California into the 21st century, recognizing that there are more than ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ families today.” Leno apparently got the idea for the bill (SB1476) from a 2011 court case in which a young girl was ordered into foster care when her legally married parents (two women) weren’t around to care for her. Mom number 1 was in jail; Mom 2 was in the hospital. The girl had a relationship with her biological father, but apparently the court wasn’t able to give him custody. The proposed legislation—which has already passed the State