The biological mother of a seven-year-old Vermont girl has been ordered by a court to hand her over to her former partner.

Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins had a civil union ceremony in Vermont, America, in 2000 and their daughter Isabella was born to Miller two years later through artificial insemination.

But the couple split up in 2003 when Miller became an evangelical Christian and renounced homosexuality. She then moved to Virginia.

Their civil union was dissolved in 2007 and Miller was granted custody of Isabella with Jenkins allowed liberal visiting rights.

The Supreme Courts of Virginia and Vermont agreed with this decision, saying the case was equal to a heterosexual couple fighting over custody.

However, a family court judge found Miller in contempt of court last month for denying Jenkins access to her child, Associated Press reports.

Judge William D Cohen, the family court judge in Vermont, ruled that the only way to ensure fair access was to switch custody rights to Jenkins.

He denied a request from Miller to delay the transfer but then said she had apparently “disappeared” with Isabella and broken contact with her lawyers.

Her lawyers have said that moving the child would be difficult for her, and that she shares her mother’s beliefs about homosexuality.

Miller was ordered to hand over custody this Friday at 1pm at the home of Jenkins’ parents in Virginia.

Again, we have our old friend ‘equality’ to blame. This case is not equal to a heterosexual couple fighting over custody.

Oxytocin – the “cuddle chemical” – is normally released during social interactions and the child feels the benefit from mum and dad in different, important ways.

Some studies have shown that:

Girls reach puberty younger, become sexually active earlier and are more likely to get pregnant in their teens if their father was absent when they were young.

The sons of absent fathers display lower intimacy and self-esteem.

When men become fathers they undergo biochemical changes that affect their behaviour and oxytocin levels in both parents have different effects.

Fathers may be “biologically programmed” to help raise children.

So when I read about a lesbian couple getting the go ahead to receive NHS fertility treatment, it alarms me because it clearly goes against what is right, natural and beneficial for the child’s welfare.

From October, clinics will no longer be able to block lesbians by referring to a child’s “need for a father”.

The selfish social engineers, whose only desire is to destroy a healthy society, are again using ‘equality’ as a weapon against children.

If children are due any rights, then, barring unforeseen or tragic circumstances, entitlement to a mother and father come pretty much top of the list.

That’s the picture in Real Street, but what’s going on is that the real, logical, sensible and moral right of the child is completely ignored in favour of the perceived right of the lesbians to be treated equally (i.e. with heterosexual couples) even though their situation is not equal to a man and wife.

This whole shambles needs to be sorted out because what we have is a situation that is immoral, illogical, wastes NHS resources and most importantly, deprives children of what they really need: a father.

Deep shame upon all those who rate advancing a political cause above the welfare of children.