Parentage
Hubig supports joint motherhood for women’s pairs
The Federal Minister of Justice believes that the lived social reality should be reflected in family law. For Hubig, this also includes the common motherhood of two women.
Federal Minister of Justice Stefanie Hubig would like to enable lesbian couples with a child from the start. “I personally can imagine that in the right of parentage we will make a regulation for a common motherhood of women,” said the SPD politician of the German Press Agency.
The legal situation is currently the case that the partner of the woman who gives birth to the child has to adopt it in order to become a legal parent. “This path through the judicial adoption process is very tedious and stresses the families,” criticizes the minister. In addition, this regulation could have bitter consequences for the child if the mother dies at or shortly after birth: “Then it may have no parent at all.”
Ampel reform no longer came about
There were already concrete plans for a co-motherhood in the Federal Ministry of Justice in autumn 2024. However, after the breakdown of the traffic light coalition, they were not implemented. The coalition agreement between the CDU, CSU and SPD provides for no changes in the right of parentage. In general, you will be guided by any reforms in family law, “the child’s well -being”, it is only said in general.
Hubig, however, considers a change at this point to make sense, also with reference to pending processes for co-mother. “Several German courts consider the applicable right of parentage to be unconstitutional on this point,” says the minister, who was Minister of Education from Rhineland-Palatinate before moving to Berlin. She would like “that we will not wait for sensible reforms of family law until the Federal Constitutional Court sends us a request”.
No new “community of responsibility”
The minister, on the other hand, considers the notarized “responsibility community”, another project of ex-Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (FDP), which was not put into practice. It was about people who have no love relationship, but wanted to take responsibility for each other in everyday life. At that time, Buschmann cited single parents as examples who support each other, or single seniors who live together in a shared apartment.
“It sounded contemporary for many,” said Hubig. But the idea was probably not mature. Feedback from society and science showed that nobody needs this new legal institute. The added value would have been more symbolic.
dpa
Source: Stern
I have been working in the news industry for over 6 years, first as a reporter and now as an editor. I have covered politics extensively, and my work has appeared in major newspapers and online news outlets around the world. In addition to my writing, I also contribute regularly to 24 Hours World.
