FRENCH LESBIAN COUPLE GRANTED FAMILY STATUS: From Agence France Presse

France has for the first time extended official recognition to a family headed by a homosexual couple, giving legal rights to two lesbians raising three daughters one of them bore through artificial insemination, Le Monde newspaper reported.

The authorisation, given by a Paris judge on July 2, sets a precedent in a country which is still grappling with a marriage of two gay men in June that the government has declared annulled.

According to Thursday's edition of Le Monde, the lesbian couple, identified only as Carla and Marie-Laure, and their three children, aged 5, 7 and 10, received permission to establish "a legal link between each of the parents and the children as well as joint exercise of parental authority".

Their lawyer, Caroline Mecary, told AFP that the decision--delivered after four years of legal efforts--now allows the couple to carry out their family duties like any other heterosexual couple in France.

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