"Put Bluntly," We Need to Contemplate Polyamory

In October 2022, Kelsey Beazer, Elizabeth Cameron, and Samantha Simpson published “Put Bluntly, We Need to Contemplate Polyamory” in the Canadian Family Law Quarterly (Vol. 41, Iss. 1, pp. 99-122).

The paper takes its name from the 2021 BC Supreme Court decision in which Justice Sandra Wilkinson, in finding that all three members of a polyamorous triad should be recognized as parents of a child, observed that the Family Law Act “did not contemplate polyamorous families.” Drawing on that decision and the broader landscape of multi-parent family arrangements, the paper examines the legal gaps facing polyamorous families in British Columbia and explores how existing family law frameworks fall short.

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