| Term |
Explanation |
|---|---|
adoptive parent |
A person who has legally adopted a child. |
ART |
assisted reproductive technology. |
ART child |
A child conceived through ART. |
assisted reproductive technology |
Conception other than through intercourse, including in
vitro fertilisation, clinically-assisted donor insemination and
self-insemination. |
birth father |
A father listed on a child’s birth
certificate. |
birth mother |
A woman who gives birth to a child. |
CRC |
Convention on the Rights of the
Child |
de facto couple |
Two people in a de facto relationship. |
de facto relationship |
A relationship between two people living together as a
couple on a genuine domestic basis, irrespective of gender. |
gay co-father |
A person in a gay couple intending to raise a child from
birth, who is not a birth father. |
HREOC |
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity
Commission |
ICCPR |
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
ICESCR |
International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights |
ILO 111 |
International Labour Organisation, Discrimination
(Employment and Occupation) Convention 1958 |
Inquiry |
HREOC’s National Inquiry into Discrimination
against People in Same-Sex Relationships. |
legal parent |
A person noted as a parent on a child’s birth
certificate or an adoptive parent. |
lesbian co-mother |
The female partner of the birth mother at the time a
child is conceived and born. |
opposite-sex couple |
A de facto couple where one member is the opposite sex
to the other. |
opposite-sex family |
An opposite-sex couple with one or more
children. |
opposite-sex partner |
One member of an opposite-sex couple. |
parenting order |
A parenting order issued by the Family Court of
Australia under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth). |
same-sex couple |
A de facto couple where one member is the same sex as
the other. |
same-sex family |
A same-sex couple with one or more
children. |
same-sex partner |
One member of a same-sex couple. |
social parent |
Any person (often a subsequent partner) significant to
the care and welfare of a child who is not a birth mother, birth father, lesbian
co-mother or gay co-father . |
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