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Today on Too Opinionated we talk to author Ian Jenkins about his amazing and inspiring story.

Someone once said that every child birth is a miracle.\xa0\xa0For Ian Jenkins and his family, it was so much more.\xa0\xa0It was \u2013 literally \u2013 unprecedented.\xa0\xa0Because Ian\u2019s two kids each have three dads.

Ian is a hospital medicine specialist in San Diego, and he\u2019s been partners with psychiatrist Alan for almost two decades.\xa0\xa0And THEY have been partners with zookeeper Jeremy for about eight years.\xa0\xa0They are, in contemporary parlance, a \u201cthrouple.\u201d\xa0\xa0And their two kids \u2013 Piper, 3, and Parker, 14 months \u2013 are the first to have a polyamorous family on their birth certificates.

The story of how Ian met Alan, and then Jeremy, and how the three of them are the first polyamorous triad to legally become fathers to their two children, is the subject of Jenkins\u2019 upcoming\xa0Three Dads and a Baby: Adventures in Modern Parenting,\xa0to be published soon by Cleis Press.\xa0\xa0In addition to the usual obstacles that many same-sex couples have in conceiving and bearing children with the help of surrogates, Ian and his partners had to break new legal ground to earn the same recognition as a two-person parental unit.\xa0\xa0

That meant having to convince reproductive medicine specialists, potential surrogates, lawyers, and a reluctant judge to join them in creating one of the most unique family \u201corigin stories\u201d one might imagine.\xa0\xa0Although this is Jenkins\u2019 first major published effort, he\u2019s a lifelong writer who tells his story with an ease and familiarity that makes even some of the more sensational elements feel perfectly reasonable.\xa0

Three Dads and a Baby\xa0offers insight into the personal connection between Ian and his partners and how it strengthens as they pursue fatherhood together.\xa0

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