Thought for today: Mums is the word
by Ann Farmer, TCW:
Following the announcement by Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson that she is expecting a baby with her same-sex partner, a correspondent to the Telegraph asks: ‘May we also think of the child, who will be brought into the world with the deliberate consequence of not knowing its biological father during childhood?’
The previous day in the same publication, Melanie Rickey, ‘wife of shopping guru Mary Portas’, says they ‘thought it would be lovely’ if one of Ms Portas’s brothers would help them fulfil their dream of having a family, and that he provided the sperm to create a child via IVF. She states: ‘We’ve been . . . upfront with Horatio from the moment he was old enough to understand. I think he was around 18 months when we told him who his father was, and he sees the man he calls “Daddy” regularly.’
As such Rickey implicitly recognises the natural right every child has to know and have a relationship with their father. However, when it comes to lesbian same-sex parenting this natural right of the child is usually sacrificed and there no knowledge of, let alone relationship, between the child and natural father. But fathers are not mere optional extras for children, and to deny a child this profound relationship should cause concern.
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