Sperm donation is testing what it means to be a legal parent, all the way to the High Court
- Written by Hannah Robert, Lecturer in Law, La Trobe University
We need a new legal definition of 'parent' to reflect the diversity of Australian families.from www.shutterstock.com
The family courts have historically treated legal parentage as a question of who has “begotten or borne” a child. But increasingly complex family situations created as a result of donor conception, surrogacy, IVF and DNA...