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When legal parentage becomes a weapon in same-sex divorce

I carried our daughter but my wife is not on the birth certificate and now we are divorcing and I am terrified she will disappear from our child's life.

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The gap between lived family reality and legal recognition creates vulnerability in the most intimate relationships.

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“Where Are You with Same-sex parenting — experience and research?”

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