I Went to a Queer Platonic Co-Parenting Meet-Up | | Sophie K Rosa: "Since I've known I was gay, I've known that – should I choose to have kids – it won't be simple," says Eleanor Margolis, a 33-year-old writer living in south London.
A couple of years ago, in a discussion about whether the couple wanted to be parents, Eleanor's partner of six years, Leo Schick, 35, raised the idea of co-parenting: partnering up platonically with another person or couple in order to raise children.
While at first "dubious because of the tricky logistics," Eleanor was eventually convinced it could be the answer. "The more I thought about it," she says, "the more I realised that in a society that is in absolutely no way structured to support parents, this could be the perfect parenting model."
As part of their journey towards becoming co-parents, Eleanor and Leo organised what they believe is the UK's only current queer platonic co-parenting speed-meeting event, held one Saturday in January at the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre.
As Leo opened the sold-out event – welcoming everyone to the space and explaining the itinerary, which was designed to facilitate compatible co-parents to meet – I looked around at the 40 or so attendees exchanging glances with one another. Could we be setting eyes on our future co-parents for the very first time? | |  | REPORT Labour Took Thousands of Pounds From a Massive Polluter by Simon Childs
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