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November 6, 2023 23 mins

In their book Them Before Us, Katy Perry and Stacy Manning spoke of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child. They had this to say:

Every country on the planet understands how critical mothers and fathers are to children. The United Nations, an institution in which consensus is as rare as a winged unicorn, enshrined children's right to be known and loved by both parents in the Convention on the Rights of the Child — the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history.

This winged unicorn has declared that children have a right to be known and cared for by both their mother and father, should not be separated from their parents, and have a right to remain in contact when apart. Children have a right to their biological identity and extended family. In summary, children are not items to be cut and pasted into any and every adult relationship. As Rabbi Gilles Bernheim has noted, children are subjects of rights, not objects of rights.

So let’s see what the importance for children is of living with both of their biological parents.

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