Madam, - The High Court ruled this week that a lesbian couple, as a de-facto family, can decide when and how to measure contact with the biological father of the child of one of the couple at some time in the future. How can this decision be in the best interests of the child?
It is a human right that any person of whatever age or gender has the right to know and associate with their biological parents. In the case of a young infant, society has a moral responsibility to protect the child's right to have proper, reasonable and appropriate contact with its biological parents.
This decision on this issue has turned reasonable thinking upside down, by ruling that the wishes and preferences and sanctity of a relationship between two adults (a relationship which may not last) is more important than the biological strands which cement every member of world's population. - Yours, etc,
PETER BURKE, Blacklion Manor, Greystones, Co Wicklow.