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====Parents through natural reproduction==== | ====Parents through natural reproduction==== | ||
Under | Under section 26, a child's parents are presumed to be the child's ''birth mother'' and ''biological father''. This includes ''everyone'' who is a mother or a father, regardless of the nature of the parents' relationship with each other. They could be married spouses or unmarried spouses, dating each other or not dating at all. | ||
====Parents through assisted reproduction==== | ====Parents through assisted reproduction==== | ||
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*a surrogate mother ''is a parent'', unless everyone has signed an assisted reproduction agreement that makes her not a parent. | *a surrogate mother ''is a parent'', unless everyone has signed an assisted reproduction agreement that makes her not a parent. | ||
If you do the math, you'll see that under the ''Family Law Act'' a child can have up to five parents. The act doesn't discriminate between parents who are intended parents and parents who are donors or surrogate mothers. In for a penny, in for a pound, as the saying goes: a parent under an assisted reproduction agreement is liable to pay child support just like every other parent, but is also presumed to be the guardian of a child under | If you do the math, you'll see that under the ''Family Law Act'' a child can have up to five parents. The act doesn't discriminate between parents who are intended parents and parents who are donors or surrogate mothers. In for a penny, in for a pound, as the saying goes: a parent under an assisted reproduction agreement is liable to pay child support just like every other parent, but is also presumed to be the guardian of a child under section 39(3). | ||
===Caregivers and extended family relationships=== | ===Caregivers and extended family relationships=== | ||