An Administrative Determination has been issued relating to when a person is in loco parentis with a child. In general, the determination is that, when one has either day-to-day care or financial support of a child, they have established an in loco parentis relationship with that child, meaning that the employee intends to assume the responsibilities of a parent with regard to a child. This can include, for example, an employee who provides day-to-day care for his or her unmarried partner’s child (with whom there is no legal or biological relationship), but does not financially support that child. The same principle applies to leave for the birth of a child or leave to bond with the child in the first twelve months. When an employee who will share equally in the raising of a child with the child’s biological parent, they would be entitled to leave for the child’s birth, because he or she will stand in loco parentis of that child, even if it is anticipated that the child will have a continuing relationship with both of its legal parents. Neither the statute or the regulations restrict the number of parents a child may have under FMLA. Administrator’s Determination No. 2010-3, June 22, 2010