At issue is whether Hamilton and Gunn's plan to adopt jointly "continued unabated," Nervo wrote in his ruling, and whether Gunn's relationship with Abush (now 8) rose to the level of
coparentTechnical report:
coparent or second-parent adoption by same-sex parents.
American Academy of Pediatrics, (2002)
Coparent or second-parent adoption b same-sex parents.
It ended with a plea: "We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and
coparent, we will be able to continue in the same manner.''
GWYNETH PALTROW & CHRIS MARTIN 'Conscious uncoupling' RATHER than announce that they were splitting up, the Iron Man star and Coldplay frontman explained to the world that they were going to "consciously uncouple and
coparent".
and dibly we ask e and at this "We have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as consciously uncouple
coparent, we will be able continue in the same manner.
Martin and Paltrow also asked for privacy for them and their children and hope to conduct this privately as they "consciously uncouple and
coparent".
We conducted our relationship privately, and hope as we consciously uncouple and
coparent, we will continue in the same manner.
The welfare system tends to view an unwed father solely as a paycheck, not as a
coparent. In many states, even unwed fathers who live with their children and pay some of the bills can be sent to jail for failing to pay child support.
(164) Through the end of the 1990s, most states that had considered
coparent petitions for custody or visitation arising from these relationships had rejected them.
Technical report:
Coparent and second-parent adoption by same-sex parents.
In 2002, the AAP issued a policy supporting second-parent and
coparent adoption by gay and lesbian parents (Pediatrics 2002; 109:339-40).
She was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer at age thirty-four, after she became increasingly aware that she was unable to perform her other identities--runner, mother to a five-year-old, spouse, partner to a woman who was nine months pregnant,
coparent, teacher, cook, and foodie--in the ways that she was used to because the cancer that she didn't know was in her colon was stealing the iron from her blood.