The breakup between Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels just keeps getting nastier, with Michaels now filing for full legal and physical custody of the couple's twins. This sets a horrible precedent for same-sex parents -- you may recall Tammy carried the twins to term, after being impregnated by an anonymous sperm donor (don't worry, I was shocked that it wasn't Melissa's sperm also) -- and is clearly the act of a woman scorned. Sad day for their family -- and for families everywhere.Thursday, July 08, 2010
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The breakup between Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels just keeps getting nastier, with Michaels now filing for full legal and physical custody of the couple's twins. This sets a horrible precedent for same-sex parents -- you may recall Tammy carried the twins to term, after being impregnated by an anonymous sperm donor (don't worry, I was shocked that it wasn't Melissa's sperm also) -- and is clearly the act of a woman scorned. Sad day for their family -- and for families everywhere.
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I don't like such a negative tone from the gay press
Tammy gave up a career (as meager as it may have been) to deliver and raise babies - clearly it wasn't as much a priority to Melissa. Anyway, courts always give the mother priority over the other parent unless she's deemed unfit. We don't call other birth mothers "scorned" when they seek custody, do we?
Anonymous 2: Um, all kidding aside, they're BOTH "the mother." And YES, we do call any birth mother "scorned" when she tries to get SOLE custody of a child when the other parent -- male or female -- has not been accused of being unfit. This is an attempt to say that a nonbiological (read: gay) parent can be erased from the record, and I think it's vile.
I would hate to bring up an adopted child and not be referred to as its 'father'!! Biological does NOT equal better!
However, why should a gay divorce be any different to a straight divorce?
sounds to me like typical shit straight couples go through when they split up. I think that's a good thing. A court decision that denies Melissa custody based on no biological link would, indeed, "set a horrible precedent for same-sex parents," but that same-sex couples now use the courts just as straights do seems pretty good to me and doesn't quite set the bad precedent you foresee or the sad day for families everywhere that you claim.
Any way this shakes out, Etheridge does not come out looking good. Her attitude toward her to-be ex-spouse is unseemly and classless. She should have smiled and settled with Tammy Lynn and been civil about it.
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