
Judge rules Brazilian boy can officially have three fathers and one mother
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CNN Brasil reports that as the child started school, he expressed his desire to get formal recognition for what he believed to be true: that he had three fathers.
After a six-year long legal battle, a court in the Brazilian state of Espírito Santo has authorized a child to be officially registered as the child of three fathers and one mother. Ana Paula Morbeck, the lawyer who represents the now ten-year-old child, told CNN affiliate CNN Brasil that the child was regularly registered at birth with his biological father and mother. However, due to his biological parents’ “complex and inconsistent” marriage, the paternal uncle and his husband helped to take care of the boy, the lawyer explained to CNN Brasil. “What was supposed to be sporadic became routine, and this created an emotional bonding with the then-baby,” Morbeck told CNN Brasil. After his biological parents divorced, the child went to live full-time with his uncle and his husband, CNN Brasil reported. “They took care of his health, education, food, recreation, and they also gave him all the love and security for his healthy development,” the lawyer said to CNN Brasil.