“We already know we are a family, and now with this bill passing, no one can tell us differently,' one lesbian mom said of the Connecticut Parentage Act. - NBCOUT
passed the state Senate in a late-night session on May 20 and was headed to the governor’s desk, she congratulated her wife.It was a joke shared between two people who have long struggled to have their family recognized. Despite being there for their teenage son, Jayvin, for over a decade, Denise Gonzalez is still not officially recognized as Jayvin’s parent under Connecticut law.
“This is such an important day — what it says for our kids, what it says for Connecticut, what it says for respecting everybody and who they are,”Ocasio-Gonzalez and Gonzalez have been married since 2014, and they share a 2-year-old daughter, Destiny, in addition to their teenage son. Both women are on Destiny’s birth certificate, but even though they were married at the time of her birth, Gonzalez is still not considered Destiny’s legal parent outside of Connecticut.
Once in effect, the Connecticut Parentage Act will allow the family, and others like them, to avoid a potentially lengthy and costly second-parent adoption. So if Ocasio-Gonzalez and her family move to another state — any other state, regardless of its parentage laws — they will both be recognized as the legal parents of their two children.
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