By Marisa Dellatto | 1 March 2021
NEW YORK POST — Three isn’t a crowd for these dads.
A 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.
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. Ian Jenkins.
Jenkins and his partners, Jeremy Hodges and Dr. Alan Mayfield, don’t see their family — which now also includes their son, Parker, 1 — as unusual.
“The fact that Piper has three parents is just not a big deal. I have three parents myself — my mother, father and stepmother — and no one thinks anything of it,” Jenkins writes in the book. “Some people seem to think it’s about a ton of sex or something, or we’re unstable and must do crazy things. [But] 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. […]
Why stop at 3? Why not claim 457 spouses?
Well, how is their relationship? Just 3 men bringing up a kid?
Yeah, they tried to prepare us for this one with such notable propaganda as:
1. Three Men and a Baby (film)
and
2. Full House (television show)
Of course there was Torchy’s thread that has Mr. Potato Head now married to some dude who looks like Freddy Mercury…and the hits just keep coming.