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It is the first case of this type approved in Brazil.
For the first time in Brazil, a judge allowed a baby with two mothers and one father to be registered.
The judge of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul Rafael Pagnon Cunha explained that the biological parents of the baby and the female partner of the biological mother requested that the birth certificate be changed.
The women got married two months ago and the child’s father is a friend who helped raise the child.
The judge defended “the decision to adapt the baby’s civil registry to what life has reserved for him: a multi-composite nest, full of love and affection.”
The decision was made on Thursday and applied to the local registry a day later, and involved adapting the document so that instead of father, mother and four grandparents, it accommodates another parent and two more grandparents, the Brazilian newspaper reported. The balloon this Saturday.
“historical”
The newspaper specified that Fernanda Batagli Kropenski, 26, and Mariani Guedes Santiago, 27, asked their friend Luis Guilherme Barbosa for help to have a child.
The little girl was born on August 27.
“The ruling is historic,” said Maria Berenice Dias, who heads the Rio Grande do Sul bar association’s diversity committee.
Berenice said that the law must adapt to social changes.
