 Condou and Kanter first met in 1998 and made a mutual agreement between each other that they would have a child if she was still single at the age of forty.In a number of interviews, Condou has revealed that the children were conceived through IVF treatment, following Kanter's fortieth birthday and relationship breakup.From October 2011 until July 2012, he wrote a column for "The Guardian" newspaper on the subject of same-sex parenting.