It is common for children in LGBT+ families to have three or four parents. However, you can only register two legal parents for a child. The Minister of Equality is not open to the idea of more than two legal parents, however she is open to explore how to improve the situation of the “social parents”.
- Parents without legal rights, also called social parents, do not have, among other things, the same access to the child’s medical records, Aula or the opportunity to create a passport for the child. This makes it more difficult for them to take their child to the doctor, dentist, school-home interviews or abroad.
- Also, the social parents do not have the right to time off on the child’s first sick day, just as there are also challenges in relation to inheritance, citizenship and passing on one’s surname to the child.
