The angle for me here is that fact that my (female) partner and I are planning to have a child through donor insemination at some point. She's going to be the birth Mum but we want a known donor who will be known, and a friend, but will not be a parent or have any parental rights. I will, of course, want full parental rights.

Known donors have successfully taken mothers to court to get parental responsibility for 'their' child after the child has been born. We do hope to secure ourselves from this by being very careful about who our donor ends up being and being very up front about what we all want, but even without putting his name on the birth certificate, he can get parental rights if he really wants them, regardless of prior agreements.

I just wonder what the new changes might mean to people in our circumstances. Any ideas?