These Five People Are About to Have a Baby Together

Vice ^ | August 4, 2015 | Noor Spanjer

[Cheerio]

The idea of a "nuclear family"—white picket fence, a kid or two, friendly golden retriever—has been under siege for a while now. No longer do stories of step-parents or half-siblings shock us, and children being raised by parents of the same gender (so-called "pink families") are becoming increasingly common. Another new, lesser known family structure that has emerged is that of multi-parenting—or raising a child with more than two legal parents. For instance, a lesbian couple and a gay couple bringing up a child together as a single family, but in separate households.

That's more or less the family unit that two couples—Jaco and Sjoerd, and Daantje and Dewi—have decided upon. The four have known each other for ten years, and have been considering the possibility of having a child together for about six. That possibility is going to become a reality this week, when Daantje gives birth.

Both couples are married, but Jaco and Sjoerd's relationship also involves a third person: an Australian named Sean who's been their partner for the last three years. "Three and a half," Sean shouts from the kitchen when he hears me asking Sjoerd how long they have been together. Sean is such a big part of their relationship that he will play an equal role in raising the gang's future son.

[Cheerio]

Do you think Sodom and Ghomarah was this bad?

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The laws surrounding parental rights have improved significantly for gay parents in the Netherlands over the past few years, but the issue of multi-parenthood is still a complicated one. In the case of this particular five-parent family, Jaco has taken on the role of legal parent number two—replacing Dewi, who initially held the position because of her marriage to Daantje.................

The legal aspects of multi-parenthood are complicated enough as it is, but what about the practical side? Who had to sleep with whom?

"Oh no, that wasn't something we wanted to do," Sjoerd tells me when I ask if Daantje had slept with the biological father (who'd prefer to remain anonymous). "So basically, it worked like this: Daantje and Dewi were getting it on in one room, and we were in the other. At some point, Dewi yelled: 'Yes, we're ready!' and then we walked into their room with a jar of semen."

[Resolute Conservative]

I feel ill... Why did we intervene in 1941-45?

[Steely Tom]

The idea of “crazy people belong in a mental asylum” has been under siege for a while too.

[jsanders2001]

> Do you think Sodom and Ghomarah was this bad?

No. I think we're in new territory. The blast area is going to be astronomical in comparison...

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

I hope this is satire.

[DuncanWaring]

Don’t count on it.

[Cheerio]

I hope this is satire.

Don't think so.

[Yogafist]

And yet there is a push by both Democrats, and Republicans, to deny constitutional rights to Americans for mental instability.

[Eagles6]

Sickening.

[Andy'smom]

It makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

[Eagles6]

Sickening.

[KGeorge]

‘’I think we’re in new territory. ‘’

And I want the hell out! These people need their own country & we need ours.

[JimSEA]

They are boasting about this? Poor kid(s), it (they) will be better off in foster care which I suspect they’ll end up in.

[William Tell]

Evidently, in the Netherlands it really does take a village to raise a child.

[right way right]

These people are stupid apes.
Romans 1
We should all pray for this child.