© 2024 WUKY
background_fid.jpg
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Same-Sex Adoption Case Challenges What It Means To Be Parent

LRC

Kentucky's Supreme Court is being asked to decide what it means to be a parent in today's ever-changing definition of family.

Two women — former same-sex partners identified in court only by their initials — are fighting over custody of a 9-year-old girl.

One woman had a baby with the help of a sperm donor in 2006, but the women's relationship ended in 2011. Now, the biological mother has cut off contact with the other woman and married a man. That man is trying to adopt the girl. The other woman wants to block the adoption, and she won a favorable family court ruling.

An appeals court reversed that ruling. The Kentucky Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case Thursday.

It's one of several such disputes across the country.

Related Content