Children’s Rights

AN ARGUMENT AGAINST POLYAMOROUS MARRIAGE

P1. Polyamorous marriage implies that it does not matter whether families (and children) are headed by a man and woman, two men, two women, three men or three women etc.

P2. Implying that it does not matter whether families (and children) are headed by a man and woman, two men, two women, three men or three women etc. undermines children’s rights to be in a family headed by their mother and father

C. Therefore polyamorous marriage undermines children’s rights to be in a family headed by their mother and father


Katy Faust | This is a Child | NatCon 3 Miami

CONSERVATIVE COMMENTARY

This argument is also used against:

According to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (the world’s most widely ratified human rights treaty in history):

The child shall be registered immediately after birth and shall have the right from birth to a name, the right to acquire a nationality and. as far as possible, the right to know and be cared for by his or her parents.

https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/convention-text#

Polyamorous marriage undermines this right by implying that it does not matter whether families (and children) are headed by a mother and father, any number of mothers, or any number of fathers.