Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Where can a child have three ...

Today's newspapers and websites are full of stories about the California bill that will allow a judge to find that a child has three parents. (Check out the New York Times?for example).? Every story I read contains something that is misleading or plain wrong about the state of the law.? So I thought I would briefly try to set the record straight.? Mind you, I am not criticizing the journalists who wrote these pieces, as this area is complex and can be very hard to explain.? But I'm going to give it a try.

The first time I ever found a case assigning parental responsibilities and giving parental rights to more than two parents was in Louisiana in the 1980's.? Yes Louisiana.? There was nothing gay about it.? A married woman gave birth to a child and the biological father was not her husband.? The child had a relationship with both men and the court said there were two fathers. (If you are familiar with the US Supreme Court's ruling in Michael H. v. Gerald D., this might suprise you.? That case held that a state was not required to give parental status to a biological father of a child born to a woman married to a different man, and was certainly not required to say a child could have two fathers.? But it didn't prohibit a state from doing either of those things.)

More recently, and in the gay and lesbian context, here is what I can report.? California, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, and Alaska have allowed third-parent adoption, whereby neither biological parent relinquishes parental rights but the partner of one of those parents becomes a legal parent through adoption.? In fact, one of the first "second-parent" adoptions in the country, in Alaska in 1985, was actually a third-parent adoption.

The District of Columbia parentage statutes assign parentage to a person who consents to a woman's insemination.? A semen donor can also be a parent, but only if there is a written agreement to that effect.? So, when all three individuals document in writing that they are conceiving a child that all will parent, the child can have three parents.? (Read here for more about this law).? In addition, DC has a "de facto parent" statute that defines when a person who is not a legal parent can nonetheless obtain custody and visitation and have an obligation to pay child support on an equal basis with the legal parents.? If the child has two legal parents, this can create a third person with some of the rights of parenthood.

Delaware defines a "de facto parent" and makes that person a legal parent.? I have written about this here.? Therefore a child can have three parents in Delaware.

There are a few other cases I know of in the gay/lesbian context where the court has recognized the semen donor and the two moms in some configuration.? A Minnesota case gave visitation rights to both the nonbio mom and the semen donor.? A Pennsylvania case required both the (involved) semen donor and the non bio mom to pay child support.? This does not necessarily make the individuals full parents for all purposes.

Although creating something short of legal parentage, it's worth mentioning post-adoption contact agreements (PACA) which are permitted in a growing number of states -- maybe half at this point. They allow a parent to relinquish a child for adoption but retain legal enforceable visitation rights, assuming that visitation remains in the child's best interests.? This idea grew out of the child welfare context, where a child in state custody because of abuse or neglect might face indefinite foster care unless the rights of his/her parents were terminated.? Older children might not want to lose all contact with a parent, and a parent who might not be proven entirely unfit might not want to lose all contact with her child.? If contact can continue, all involved might agree to an adoption.? In that case the child has only two parents -- the adoptive ones, but the biological parent retains a legal connection through visitation.? It's not three parents, but it's some recognition of the reality of complex family life.? And I have written about how a law such as this can allow a lesbian couple and a known donor to structure their relationships so that he consents to a second parent adoption but retains legally enforceable visitation.? This kind of arrangement has appeal for those families planned around the idea that the child will have two mothers but the donor will have ongoing contact but not legal parentage.? I might add that this arrangement works when the child is conceived through sexual intercourse as well.? It simply requires the three individuals to agree that this is what they want.

Finally, to return to the California bill, the legislative proposal arose after a California appeals court ruled that a child could not have three parents.? I wrote about that case, In re M.C., extensively here.? The court could have found that the child in that case did not have three parents without pronouncing in such a sweeping way that a child could never have three parents.? Given the sweeping language, the bill is necessary to protect parent-child relationships when there really are more than two people who function as the child's parents.

Source: http://beyondstraightandgaymarriage.blogspot.com/2012/07/where-can-child-have-three-parents.html

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Daytona Beach, FL - Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center Implements TIH for Cardiac Arrest

Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center is now utilizing Therapeutic-Induced Hypothermia, an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) protocol in treating patients who have suffered from cardiac arrest.

Therapeutic hypothermia is the only intervention that has been shown to improve neurological outcomes after cardiac arrest and can also be utilized in patients who have suffered head or spinal injuries. This new treatment works by protecting the brain and other organs by lowering oxygen requirements, decreasing swelling and limiting the release of damaging toxins that can cause cells to die.

Studied since the 1900s and known to be beneficial since the 1950s, Therapeutic-Induced Hypothermia (TIH) is a protocol endorsed by the American Heart Association since 2003. During TIH, a patient's body temperature is cooled to 32-34 degrees Celsius (89.6-93.2 degrees Fahrenheit) for 24 hours using external cooling wraps or cooled intravenous fluids.?

If TIH is initiated by Emergency Medical Services (EMS), a patient can only be transported to a facility capable of continuing TIH care. Volusia County EMS will begin using TIH on select cardiac arrest patients in July 2012, and since Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center is currently the only facility in Volusia County to provide this care, all TIH patients will be transported to the Daytona Beach hospital.

"Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center prepared for Therapeutic-Induced Hypothermia by meeting with Cardiology, Critical Care, and the Emergency Department teams to develop a protocol that could be adapted hospital-wide," said Michael Gable, DO, ED medical director for Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center. "Most of the protocol was developed from the pre-existing Florida Hospital protocol, as well as research articles and protocols from other institutions."

Source: http://nursing.advanceweb.com/News/Regional-News/Daytona-Beach-FL-Florida-Hospital-Memorial-Medical-Center-Implements-TIH-for-Cardiac-Arrest.aspx

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Nba ??? ultimi rumors dal mercato

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Situazione Howard: i Rockets pronti ad assorbire anche i contratti di Jason Richardson, Chris Duhon e Baby Davis. Oltre ad offrire a Orlando scelte multiple al draft e giocatori giovani, Houston puo? assorbire contratti pesanti all?interno della trade di Howard. Un siparietto curioso: negli ultimi giorni l?account twitter dei Rockets ha aggiunto 4 persone da seguire, proprio Richardson Duhon Davis e ovviamente Howard!

Charlotte protagonista sul mercato: perde D.J. Augustin rinunciando all?offerta sul giocatore, e firma Ramon Sessions per due anni. Nella sostanza non cambia molto per i Bobcats, trattandosi di due giocatori di simile (medio) valore: a sua volta, per migliorare sotto canestro, la squadra di Michael Jordan cerchera? di arrivare a Kris Humpries, che punta a un accordo quadriennale.

Gli Houston Rockets eserciteranno la loro amnesty option su Luis Scola, che ha ancora 3 anni e 21 milioni di dollari nel suo contratto. Si unir? a Elton Brand tra i giocatori amnistiati, come player di esperienza e qualit? su cui puntare: per l?ex Philly punta forte Dallas, che vorrebbe unirlo a Nowitzki e Kaman in una front-line veramente aggressiva.

Golden State, pur vicina al tetto salariale causa contrattoni ingombranti di Jefferson, Biedrins, cerca ancora un vice David Lee, ma per arrivare a Carl Landry sar? necessaria una sign-trade con New Orleans. Che a sua volta si ? vista offrire Ryan Gomes e una seconda scelta dai Clippers, per Marco Belinelli: Nola poco interessata per i 4 milioni di dollari nel contratto di Gomes, anche se solo per un anno.

I Knicks non pensano di pareggiare l?offerta dei Raptors su Landry Fields, e hanno definito anche l?acquisto del play argentino Pablo Prigioni: una scappatoia nel caso che, clamorosamente, Lin non ritorni ai Knicks? Ne sapremo nelle prossime ore?

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J. Roundtree, Ohio Man, Loses 200 Pounds To Join Army

One Ohio man wouldn't allow his 405-pound weight to stop him from realizing his dream of serving his country.

J. Roundtree, 21, from Lancaster, Ohio, lost 200 pounds in 19 months in order to join the Army, the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette reports.

In November, he will begin basic training at Ft. Benning in Georgia, the news outlet reports. Roundtree eventually wants to become a police officer.

So how'd he go from 405 pounds to 205? Roundtree stuck to a strict 1,500 calorie-a-day diet and adopted an active lifestyle -- spending his time jogging, playing basketball, swimming and using home workout DVDs. When hand and foot injuries threatened to hinder his progress, Roundtree persevered, according to ABC 6.

"There's going to be days where you're like, 'Oh I don't want to do it', but you gotta keep doing it," Roundtree told the station.

As a child, Roundtree played football, baseball and basketball, but eventually picked up video games as a hobby and began to gain weight due to lack of exercise. He went on to play in gaming tournaments when he was in high school, according to the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette.

Roundtree comes from a family of servicemen and women. His father, mother, and sister all served in the Army, according to the news outlet. But while he always had his sights set on serving himself, Roundtree found his poor health seemed to pose an insurmountable problem.

"I never would have imagined that he would do that," Roundtree's mother explained to ABC 6. "But when J. sets his mind to something, don't tell him he can't do it ... because he'll prove you wrong."

And this attitude is exactly what has led him to where he is today, Roundtree told the Eagle-Gazette

"I want to be better than I was today," he said. "I wanna look the best I can. I wanna feel the best I can. I wanna run the farthest or the fastest."

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Lee Hnetinka, the man who rents multiple-million-dollar mansions in ...

Meet Lee Hnetinka, a 25-year-old Long Island, New York, man who rented several mansions in the Hamptons for the summer, including an 18-bedrom home, then turned around and hosted paid prom parties.

Lucy Sachs, who inherited an 18-bedroom 101 year old mansion from her great-grandfather, said when Hnetinka rented the $30,000 a month mansion from her he told her that he needed it for a large family reunion, but after he took access to the home on May 30, he began throwing paid parties for teenagers.

?He was very slick,? Joan Mackall a relative of Sachs told reporters.? ?He gave this whole spiel ?I?m here from the West Coast, I don?t see my family much?It?s my sort of time to be with them??just total lies.?

After receiving a tip from a neighbor, Sachs made a surprised visit to her home and found almost 100 teens packed inside.

The teenagers informed her that Hnetinka, who was running a business called Hamptons and Sons, told them it was his property and he charged them $350 per person for a three-day weekend.? Sachs said she quickly learned that Hnetinka made almost $34,000 from that one weekend. In addition, he?simultaneously had another party at a different mansion, where he charged 31 teens $516 each to party.

Sachs said she also found a 20-page manual of ?party rules? for her home and five others that Hnetinka also rented.

One of the rules instructed revelers and security guards not to open the door if police came by, but if they forced their way in they were to all leave the premises.

Sachs evicted Hnetinka for breaking the terms of the lease but he turned and tried to change the locks on her doors. ?The homeowner called police and after a four-hour standoff he left the home.

A few days later, Hnetinka returned to the mansion with lawyers and a locksmith and tried to enter the home. Once again police were called but Sachs and the rest of her family decided both times not to file charges against him. ?The entrepreneur however has a court date on Friday for unrelated parties in South Hampton.

When Hnetinka is not hosting parties in the Hamptons you can find him at a mobile-based social network called Leetto that he started or the ?social newspaper? called Bubble, which he developed.

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