Anderson Cooper is getting used to be a dad, and he's going to have some help.
The CNN anchor shared during an interview with Stephen Colbert on Monday that he plans to co-parent his newborn son, Wyatt, with his ex-boyfriend Benjamin Maisani. Cooper said that the still feels connected to Maisani, a France-born nightclub owner, even though the two broke up in 2018 after three years of dating.
"He's my family, and I want him to be Wyatt's family as well," Cooper told Colbert. AdvertisementMaisani was in the delivery room when Wyatt was born via surrogate.
There has been a recent rise in people seeking platonic co-parenting relationships
The arrangement, co-parenting with a platonic partner, is on the rise in the US and beyond, according to the Wall Street Journal.Several subscription-based online services, which match people who are seeking a co-parent, have cropped up recently. Modamily and PollenTree, are modeled after dating sites and app, but there's no romance involved.
"There are many people in the world who want to have children and do not want to do it solo," Dr. Melissa Robinson-Brown, a New York-based psychologist, told Insider. "Parenting can be quite difficult, and there are a number of stressors that come with single