At one point, they left their longtime IVF doctor over a disagreement about medical risks. “I’m Papa, Alan is Dada and Jeremy is Daddy.” Dr. This would have been really risky for the family.” “Had we not … one of us three parents would be a legal nobody to the kids,” Jenkins writes. The trio won the right to their “poly birth certificate” just before Piper was born. “And the requirement is to pay four lawyers to craft a parenting agreement, which no straight couple has probably ever been asked to sign.” Of course, redoing them means $500 an hour in fees,” Jenkins writes of the ordeal. Then, when another cycle got planned, we realized the contracts had to be redone. “We had to have contracts between each man and each woman. This time, a friend named Meghan came to the rescue and donated her eggs to the trio. It didn’t help that one of the embryos wasn’t viable, and another didn’t properly implant. It was a rare case: Third parents are usually added on to birth certificates after the fact, not at the time of the birth. The embryos needed to be adopted so that each man would have equal parental rights. Luckily, their friend Delilah offered to carry their child. It’s always a deliberate act, and a complicated one,” Jenkins writes.įirst, they had to find a surrogate.
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“Gay couples don’t stumble into parenthood by accident.
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Over the next year, the family would spend more than $120,000 on legal fees, contracts, implantations and tests. The throuple detailed their reproductive journey and legal battle to become fathers to Piper, now 3, in a new book. After five years of throuple-dom, the trio started seriously discussing parenthood when friends offered to donate their leftover embryos to them. The two were together for eight years when Hodges, who works at a zoo hospital, came into the picture.Īlthough their relationship with Hodges began as a friendship, things quickly turned romantic. Jenkins met Mayfield, a psychiatrist, while they were completing their medical residencies in Boston. it’s really remarkably ordinary and domestic in our house and definitely not ‘Tiger King,’” referring to Joe Exotic’s wild gay throuple featured in the buzzy Netflix docuseries. “Some people seem to think it’s about a ton of sex or something, or we’re unstable and must do crazy things. I have three parents myself - my mother, father and stepmother - and no one thinks anything of it,” Jenkins writes in the book. “The fact that Piper has three parents is just not a big deal.
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Alan Mayfield, don’t see their family - which now also includes their son, Parker, 1 - as unusual. Jenkins and his partners, Jeremy Hodges and Dr. Their reproductive journey and legal battle to become fathers to Piper, now 3, is detailed in “Three Dads and a Baby” (out March 9, Cleis Press), written by one of her dads, Dr. Man with 9 wives has ‘sex schedule’ to ‘fulfill my sexuality at any cost’įrom eco-friendly sex toys to ‘outercourse’ and foreplay radioĪ gay, polyamorous California throuple made history in 2017 when they became the first family in the state to list three dads on a birth certificate.
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I’m in a three-way marriage with my Tinder match and my college flame We’re a polyamorous family - and we don’t know which ‘dad’ fathered our kids