During a first marriage, a woman bore a child after consensual artificial insemination. Her husband was listed as the father on the birth certificate. The couple later separated and then divorced....

During a first marriage, a woman bore a child after consensual artificial insemination. Her husband was listed as the father on the birth certificate. The couple later separated and then divorced. Both the separation agreement and the divorce decree declared the child to be the offspring of the couple. The wife was granted support and the husband visitation rights. The woman remarried, and her second husband petitioned to adopt the child. The first husband refused his consent. The second husband then suggested that the first husband’s consent was not required because he was not the parent of the child. Should the first husband’s consent be necessary?