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Article: Lesbian wins visitation rights.(Brief Article)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- May 10, 2000
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The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled April 6 that a lesbian woman deserves visitation rights for the children she helped raise, even though the woman and her partner are no longer together.
In a decision praised by gay rights organizations, the court found that the woman is a "psychological parent" because she helped raise the couple's twins before the two women separated. The case involved a woman, identified only as M.J.B., who was artificially inseminated and gave birth to twins in 1994. She and her partner, V.C., raised the children together before separating in 1996.
After the couple broke up, V.C. was denied visitation rights and custody. A lower ...