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Ireland: LGBT + Family Rights in Ireland: Stretching Traditional Conceptions of Parenthood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2023

Robin Fretwell Wilson
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
June Carbone
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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Cet article présente et analyse de manière critique le traitement des familles LGBT + dans le droit irlandais. Si les récents changements apportés au droit irlandais par l’entrée en vigueur de la deuxième partie de la loi de 2015 sur les enfants et les relations familiales permettent désormais d’accorder le statut de parent aux personnes qui ont utilisé des formes particulières d’assistance médicale à la procréation, ces nouvelles voies d’accès à la parentalité sont très restreintes. Les familles LGBT + continuent de se heurter à des obstacles juridiques pour la reconnaissance de leur lien entre parents et enfants. Le traitement inégal de la relation parent-enfant au sein des familles LGBT + dans le droit irlandais résulte à la fois d’une réforme inadéquate et d’une incohérence fondamentale quant à l’utilité réelle du statut de parent légal.

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Irish law has accepted LGBT + families in principle, but legislation falls far short of an inclusive practical framework. Following the commencement of Part 2 of the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 on 4 May 2020, Irish law now recognises that children conceived through assisted reproductive technology (ART) may have two mothers. Part 4 of the Act (which also commenced on 4 May 2020) extends the categories of people who may apply for legal guardianship. This is helpful in facilitating joint decision-making by parents in LGBT + families who are not recognised by law as parents. However, legal recognition of the parent–child dependencies within LGBT + families remains patchy and limited. Such families continue to face significant practical problems. While there have been numerous calls for the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015 to be extended to cover a wider range of ART scenarios, and for Ireland to legislate to regulate the legal consequences of surrogacy, this chapter argues that a more fundamental conceptual shift in the legal understanding of parentage is required to achieve equality for all families.

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Publisher: Intersentia
Print publication year: 2022

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