ANDIE NOONAN
A national gay dads group has been set up
to call for changes to federal laws for full
parental recognition of children born in coparenting and surrogate arrangements.
The Gay Dads Alliance is the first national
gay dads lobby group in...
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ANDIE NOONAN
A national gay dads group has been set up
to call for changes to federal laws for full
parental recognition of children born in coparenting and surrogate arrangements.
The Gay Dads Alliance is the first national
gay dads lobby group in Australia to call for
reform of Section 60H of the Family Law Act,
which covers children born as a result of
artificial conception procedures and doesn’t
recognise gay fathers.
Drummond Street Services family dispute
resolutionpractitionerandGayDadsAlliance
spokesman James said while Section 60H
had been amended to include two female
parents, gay fathers were excluded, making
parental recognition difficult, especially with
surrogate children born overseas.
“Section 60H governs the law around
who is a parent when artificial conception
methods take place,” James told Southern
Star Observer.
“Recently this now includes two women if
they were together at the point of conception,
but there is no provision for a male parent [to
be recognised],
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