Court grants THROUPLES the same legal rights as two-parent families [Video]

10:20 EDT 01 May 2025, updated 13:30 EDT 01 May 2025

Canadian ‘throuples’ are to be granted the same parental rights as traditional families thanks to a bombshell new ruling.

A Quebec Superior Court determined that denying legal rights to multi-parent households would be ‘unconstitutional’.

The decision came after a judge ruled that three multi-parent families were being discriminated against under the status quo.

Throuples are the term given when three people are in a relationship. They are a form of consensual polyamory, which is when a person has more than one romantic partner. 

However, the ruling only applies to parental units established before the conception of a child, not to households involving step-parents or families established after birth. 

It is a marked difference from the US, where most states only recognize one or two parents. 

‘In these times when the right to equality is savagely attacked, it feels good,’ lawyer Marc-André Landry, who represented the plaintiffs, wrote after the ruling.

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