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Argentina Gets Its First Official Gay Dads |
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Written by Instinct Staff |
Tuesday, 31 July 2012
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| Tags: south america, argentina, gay dads, two, fathers, first, listed, birth certificate, international, rights, parents, same sex |
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A gay couple in Argentina have plenty to celebrate after welcoming a healthy baby boy into their lives and becoming the first time in the country's history that two fathers have been accepted on a birth certificate.
How do friends throw you a shower for that??
(Details follow.)
A release from Federación Argentina reads:
Tomorrow morning, in Buenos Aires, the first inscription of the birth of a baby with two fathers will be done in Argentina. Tobías is a boy who was born a few weeks ago in India after a surrogacy process. He's now arrived to Argentina and both his fathers will be registered with no distinction between the biological one and the other one.
Although Marriage Equality Act states that no difference should be made between children of same or different sex couples, and besides the fact that many birth certificates with two mothers have already been made, it wasn't easy to get to this point as the Civil Registry was at first reluctant to do it, but the work of the Legal Staff of the FALGBT made it possible. I want to recognize my colleagues at that point.
Moreover, a modification to Argentina's Civil Code is being debated in the Congress which would made this kind of registrations standard in all the country. We'll keep you up to date about this process.
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