I was talking to a gay friend over the weekend who is considering marrying his lesbian friend so he can start a family. I told him I thought this might be a bad idea unless he wants to live in what will most likely turn into a real-life Adam Sandler movie. But fortunately, in a fortuitous bit of timing, the internet has once again come through to back me up.

It seems that a gay Beijing man named Wang married a lesbian woman with the plan that the two of them would have twins and each would raise one of the twins. Well, as so often happens with the best laid plans, the lesbian wife only gave birth to one child and she decided she wanted to raise her child alone; cutting Wang out completely. So Wang filed for divorce, but a Chinese court has rejected his request because apparently there is a law in that country that forbids a husband from filing for divorce if his wife is pregnant or within the one-year period after she’s given birth.

I emailed this story to my friend and he has wisely decided not to pursue marriage and parenthood with his lesbian friend and instead will explore other options. I know there’s a moral in there somewhere, but I’m not sure what it is. Maybe the lesson here is…don’t marry a Chinese lesbian just so she can give birth to your child? Or am I just stating the obvious?