The three men who constitute the first legally recognized polyamorous family in the U.S. told an Australian talk show about why they went to court to all be listed on their child's birth certificate, and to talk about their new book. Perth Now recalled how "Doctor Ian Jenkins and his partners Alan Mayfield and Jeremy Allen Hodges, from San Diego, paved the way for polyamorous families when a judge signed off on all of them being recognized on daughter Piper's birth certificate" in 2017. Since then, the men have also become fathers to a 14-month-old son, the news article noted. Hodges said during the men's interview with Australian chat program The Morning Show on Feb. 17 that the family are "content to just fly under the radar and live our lives," but added that all three men in the relationship being listed as parents on their daughter's birth certificate was important for the same reasons that any other family would want that legal recognition. Hodges detailed that the men "all have pensions with our jobs and health insurance and those kind of things," and noted, "If you're not listed as your child's legal parent then they're not able to receive those benefits," Perth Now reported. Hodges also pointed out that without all three men being acknowledged as fathers, "if our child, god forbid, was to end up in the hospital, one of the parents might not be able to go visit them." Those concerns are identical to the ones many American families had, not only with regard to their children but to their spouses, before the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that found same-sex couples have the same rights to legal marriage - and the recognition and protections marriage brings - that heterosexual couples do. Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ?️‍?❤️?⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ?️: Kilian Melloy / @dragelruairi ⁠ ?: Jeremy Allen Hodges, Alan Mayfield, and Ian Jenkins, and their children Piper, 3, and Parker, 14-months / Facebook

The three men who constitute the first legally recognized polyamorous family in the U.S. told an Australian talk show about why they went to court to all be listed on their child's birth certificate, and to talk about their new book. Perth Now recalled how "Doctor Ian Jenkins and his partners Alan Mayfield and Jeremy Allen Hodges, from San Diego, paved the way for polyamorous families when a judge signed off on all of them being recognized on daughter Piper's birth certificate" in 2017. Since then, the men have also become fathers to a 14-month-old son, the news article noted. Hodges said during the men's interview with Australian chat program The Morning Show on Feb. 17 that the family are "content to just fly under the radar and live our lives," but added that all three men in the relationship being listed as parents on their daughter's birth certificate was important for the same reasons that any other family would want that legal recognition. Hodges detailed that the men "all have pensions with our jobs and health insurance and those kind of things," and noted, "If you're not listed as your child's legal parent then they're not able to receive those benefits," Perth Now reported. Hodges also pointed out that without all three men being acknowledged as fathers, "if our child, god forbid, was to end up in the hospital, one of the parents might not be able to go visit them." Those concerns are identical to the ones many American families had, not only with regard to their children but to their spouses, before the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that found same-sex couples have the same rights to legal marriage - and the recognition and protections marriage brings - that heterosexual couples do. Tap link in bio to continue on @EDGEmedianetwork ?️‍?❤️?⁠
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?️: Kilian Melloy / @dragelruairi ⁠
?: Jeremy Allen Hodges, Alan Mayfield, and Ian Jenkins, and their children Piper, 3, and Parker, 14-months / Facebook