Three men in a polyamorous relationship purchased a three-year-old girl from the Quebec government last month — a the frightening arrangement that prioritizes the men’s desire to legitimize their relationship over the young girl’s rights and safety.
The Quebec Youth Protection Service awarded Eric LeBlanc, Jonathan Bedard and Justin Maheu custody of the young girl when she was just one. These men legally became her “parents” on September 11.
At least one prospective adoption agency refused the “throuple” because Quebec does not award parental authority to more than two adults, LeBlanc told CTV News. The Youth Protection Service was reportedly “more open.”
“Through that process, they learned that we are a little different because we’re three, but we’re not different from any other family,” LeBlanc explained.
Of course they are. In fact, there are few places more dangerous for that young girl than with three unrelated, adult males.
Children statistically do best in the shared home of their married, biological mother and father. This is, in part, because the biological tie between parent and child guarantees better parental buy-in.
“Children reliably move their [biological] mothers and fathers to invest, secure, protect and nurture them,” child advocate Josh Wood writes for Them Before Us. “And they do so at a level no substitute arrangement consistently matches.”
Numerous studies show stepparents, in contrast, do not invest as much time and energy into biologically unrelated children in their care. Evolutionary psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson coined this phenomenon the “Cinderella Effect.”
This little girl will always feel the loss of her biological parents. She, like all orphaned children, deserves to be adopted by a married, male/female couple who can best mimic the stability and safety of the parents she lost. Instead, the Quebec Youth Protection Service placed her in the care of three biologically unrelated men in celebration of a radical, untested family form.
There is no greater statistical threat to a child than an unmarried male living in the home.
Cross-analyses of several countries performed by Daly and Wilson found stepparents beat their children to death at a 100 times higher rate per capita than children living with their biological parents.
A more recent U.S. dataset of people sentenced for producing child pornography showed, when controlling for the population, children living with an unrelated male adult were over 900% more likely to be sexually abused than those living with biological fathers.
This toddler is at grave risk of abuse. If, God forbid, she is harmed, Quebec authorities may not find out for years. She’s far too young to know what abuse is, let alone ask for help.
Right now, only two of the three men have parental custody over the child — but that could soon change.
In April, Quebec Superior Court Judge Marc-Andre Landry gave the province one year to change its civil code limiting parental custody to only two adults. Quebec has appealed the decision.
“It’s not about stepparents or other potential realities. It’s really about three people sitting together and saying, ‘We should have a child together,’” Landry wrote.
The harm of this ruling, if it stands, cannot be overstated. At best, it prioritizes the sexual predilections and desires of adults over the rights of children to maternal and paternal lve and care. At worst, it could allow child predators to share custody of an abuse victim under the guise of an “alternative family.”
CTV News captioned their interview with the “throuple”: “Three men and their daughter want their family recognized by the Quebec government.”
That is a lie. That child is not “their daughter, because no child can have more than one father. She doesn’t care about family recognition; she wants her biological mother and father back, or the closest approximation to them.
Instead, the Quebec government sold her to three men who wanted a child to complete their parody of domestic bliss.
She did not consent — but it did not matter.
Please join the Daily Citizen in standing against such reckless family redefinition and in praying for the safety and salvation of this little girl.
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