On 5/24/16 11:41 AM, Ted Lemon wrote:
If we are going to bring breastfeeding into this, which seems reasonable, it's worth asking if someone can actually construct a situation in which the breastfeeding mother would be present with the baby, but the local government would not recognize _her_ parental rights.
We looped down a side-road. Apparently there's some feeling that the way to solve the problem with familial rights in same- sex families not being recognized in Singapore is to simply eliminate the companion program (a very Kim Davis solution). I said I don't like the companion program because I think it tends to over-emphasize the role of meetings in our processes. Alia answered with a concrete example of why the companion program is useful and should be continued. I don't think anybody was arguing that there's a legal issue related to parental rights around breastfeeding (although I understand that there's a ton of legal issues, and local variability in those legal issues, around public breastfeeding). Melinda