Heterosexual siblings grew up in different orphanages, became a couple and became a child

Serious siblings were legally recognized as their child's parents after a legal battle in France. Rose-Marie and Hervé did not know they were half-brothers until they got their child's birth certificate and then discovered they had the same mother. The two siblings had been separated in their childhood and had grown up in different orphanages in the Aube region of northeast France.

As Russia Today writes, they met in 2006 and their daughter was born in 2009. Shortly before the birth of the child, the couple split and the little girl grew up with his mother.

According to French law, only one parent of a child born of a homosexual relationship can legally be recognized as a parent.

In 2016, the court ruled that the relationship between the mother and the child should be annulled on the grounds that "the child's homosexual origin should not be disclosed to all." Hervé had made a request for paternity recognition a few weeks before Océane's birth, before Rose-Marie, so the judge ruled that he had priority.

The court ruled that the child would be given a new birth certificate, in which only the father would be mentioned as a parent. Rose-Marie appealed.

In July, the Caen Court of Appeal overturned the first decision, judging that the mother's name should be retained on the certificate. He justified his decision by stating the "superior right of the child" under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights.

"8-year-old Océane has lived with her mother since he was born. The father does not question her parenting and does not seem to have kept a close relationship with his daughter. The annulment of the formal recognition of the mother as a parent may have consequences for the child, "he said in the statement. "It's a good decision for the child," said the father's lawyer. "Hervé himself had said that if a name had to leave the certificate, it would have to be his own. That child did not grow up. "