ABSTRACT
As a result of changes - both social and technological - in the ways in which we reproduce, a growing number of children have more than two 'parents'. Legally, however, it is only possible for a child to have one mother and one father. In this article I investigate the law's inability to accommodate the reality of multiple parent/child relationships, I argue that the law's reliance upon a superficially factual inquiry into the identity of a child's parents obscures the policy choices that might be revealed if we were to abandon the now-outdated principle of parental exclusivity.
