I’ve never had any problem with responsible gay men adopting, or lesbians using sperm donors to conceive, as Vice President Cheney’s daughter Mary apparently has done. But Akaky at The Passing Parade is surely correct when he notes that any child is sure to question any notion that her mother’s lesbian partner might have of being "the father":
"This, of course, is nonsense on stilts. If Ms. Poe thinks that she is something other than a stepparent, Ms. Cheney’s progeny will rudely disabuse her of this delusion sometime in 2022, especially if said progeny is female and she’s been out all night and put a ding in the new car’s fender in the process."
Meanwhile, comes this poignant piece by an 18-year-old conceived by insemination to underscore that it is a rare person who does not wish to know (or at least know of) their real parents, plural. Hopefully Ms. Cheney and her partner have prepared for the probability that the child will want to know who the father is, or was. It would be the wise, indeed the humane, thing to do.
Via No Left Turns
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