It is only getting weirder out there. The three individuals — a lesbian couple and their male friend — were able to become official parents to Della Wolf Kangro Wiley Richards without any litigation under the new Family Law Act that was passed last year, The National Post reported.
The development comes after Anna Richards and her ‘wife’ Danielle Wiley decided they wanted to have a baby. But rather than raise the child without a father figure, the two felt that a male influence was important, so Richards asked her friend, Shawn Kangro, to consider being the child’s father.
“We wanted our kids to know where they came from biologically and actually liked the idea of having an extended family,” she told The National Post. “It didn’t threaten us to have another person’s involvement so long as it was the right person.”
After Kangro consulted with family, he decided to enter into a legal agreement with Richards and Wiley and the three now share roles in Della’s life. The two mothers serving as primary caregivers, with Kangro having a say in important decisions involving health and schooling.
“It feels really just natural and easy, like any other family,” Kangro, the biological father, told Canada’s CBC News. “It doesn’t feel like anything is strange about it.”
Wiley got pregnant in Jan. 2013 and delivered Della on Oct. 23, 2013.
Richards, Wiley and Kangro are mixing their three families together in an uncommon arrangement that is among the first of its kind in British Columbia.
The precedent set in this case will lay the ground work for changes to laws in the United States. Pandora’s box has been opened. When the US Supreme Court decimated the definition of marriage last year, it opened the door for a fundamental re-imagining of the family. The permutations are endless and the confusion over what is right and what is wrong is just what the enemy desires.
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. -John 10:10
