Is It OK for a Child to Have More Than Two Parents?

The poem simply states the qualities necessary of a parent. And of course you're going to bring rape into this due to your narrow-mindedness. All I'm saying is a man who shoots, leaves, impregnant a woman and has nothing to do with the child or the pregnancy should not have legal rights to that child, nor ever able to gain those rights, the people who help the woman through her pregnancy and provide child care when she's at work, or come over to help out during the first year, or even move in to help out should have a legal say over that child's well being because they are the ones who actually care about the child. Same deal for a man who beats his pregnant wife, or a mother who poisons her child and fakes a serious childhood illness to gain sympathy and attention. She doesn't care about the child, only herself. She has a genetic bond though so her rights should trump all, that's how California law is currently written.

My Dad's cousin in Cali went from being a bachlor, to a husband and step-father to being a grandfather in 1.5 years. His youngest step-daughter abandoned her son. She left him with my Dad's cousin and his wife, and took off across the boarder to Mexico. She returned four years later with another baby and a third on the way. You know the disgusting thing? Despite the fact that she horribly abused her first son, her rights trumped theirs and she was granted custody of all three of her sons. Now, my Dad's cousin worries himself sick every day wondering if his grandsons are alright because of how she is. She also put a restraining order on them citing parental interferrance and only because she is the birth mother. So they can't call, write, nothing to know how the boys are. How is that fair to the child or to the couple who spent four years raising him without reservation when it was fully unexpected?

Best part: They wanted to adopt him, and they were told legally they weren't allowed to because there was no written consent from the birth mother. She ditched her 8 month old son and her rights were still that strong. That needs to be altered drastically, and this might be a good way to do it. Then instead of having to legally adopt him, his grandparents could've just said, "add us as additional legal guardians/parents for *child*" and she wouldn't have been able to pull the stunt she did.

That being said I guess adoptive parents aren't parents by your defintion?

I never once claimed I was exalted, great or complicated.They asked a question with limited knowledge, I provided an answer from experience. Simple as that.

It's really no different than when people tell an asthmatic to go sit outside when they have trouble breathing. Being outside could expose them to allergens and make the attack worse, or if you're in my area today, the terribly air quality would do the trick, but people don't always think like that. They only think back to how they were raised and what works for them thinking it must apply to all. It doesn't. Every situation and every person is as unique as a snowflake.

Edit: my mistake, I replied to this in a hurry and didn't realise the error in my typing. You didn't start this original piece of the thread, for that I apologize. However, calling me a coward because I didn't want any added stress to my life that particular day and was well aware you'd likely reply with a myriad of insults for my view not being the same as yours, I took a precaution and protected myself. Oh dear, how terrible of me. After all, I'm still recovering mentally from the only parent (yes PARENT not parents) that I've known dying after watching them waste away from illness for nearly 4 years, and now the only other family I have, a cat, is gravely ill. So excuse me if I decide to block you until I'm mentally and emotionally prepared to deal with your cyber bullying attempts to pull wool over my eyes and view things as you view them. To quote my dad: I'm being crude here, but opinions are like butts. Everyone's got one. We don't always have to agree, as long as there's a degree of civility, it's all fine.

Your response of "BURP!!!!!!" is a far cry from civil, blantly put, it's plain rude. Calling someone a coward because they're tired of your immaturity and your view of your opinion being the only possible view point simply because of your age, education level, ect speaks to your character, and not my own.

Third, as an asthmatic perhaps I understand that analogy better than you. But let me put it in another way: Someone tells you to eat a banana. You say "No, I don't like bananas they make me sick."
They jam the banana down your throat, and you throw up all over them. The person who forced the banana down your throat is at fault for forcing the banana on you. Not everyone likes bananas, not everyone can stomach bananas, we don't have anyway of identifying people who don't like bananas by looking at them, but simply have to take their word for it that they do not like bananas or cannot tolerate them, least we chance harming them or being puked on.

Has it come through yet? You know what's best for you, but you are not everyone, nor can you speak for everyone. This is why different opinions are a reality. It's also the reason why I'd support this law. Because while having more than one parent (Dad) legally able to make decisions regarding my health, education, ect was not in my best interest, for others it may be more beneficial to have a tie breaker to help make decisions regarding their upbringing as some parents cannot compromise and in those situations there's usually a third party (grandparent, aunt, godparent, step-parent) who acts as a referee between the two and is able to step out of an emotionally charged argument to see the child's best interest. Yes there's potential for disaster as in reality there is with any new law. There's also great potential for good as well. I simply prefer to see it as a positive rather than a negative. That's my right as a free-thinking human being. You don't have to agree with me, but you don't have the right to degrade me for my view either nor do you have the right to name call or instigate an argument all you had to say in a civil manner was, 'scroll up hun, you misread the thread'. That would've been civil. Name calling and antagonizing isn't. I try to be civil, perhaps at times I get emotionally charged and it doesn't come across properly especially in a topic like this, but your posts, from all I can see are just blantent with disrespect for non-like minded humans and frankly I don't need somebody like that either in real life or in cyber space following me around or interacting with me. Good day.