Until late last year, Connecticut’s case law recognized only four ways of becoming a parent—conception, adoption, artificial insemination and surrogacy contracts.

The last three methods come with formal legal steps that are spelled out by statute, with papers to sign, specialists to engage and probate courts to notify. None of these biological or legal steps applied to Lauren Barse, whose same-sex spouse, Krista Pasternak, gave birth to a son—from an anonymous sperm donor—in the fall of 2008.

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