The Menneson's react after appeals court decision A French appeals court ordered the government Friday to officially recognise the sole parenthood of a couple who raised twins borne for them by a surrogate, a practice that is illegal in the country. The twins were born in 2000 to Dominique and Sylvie Mennesson, a French couple who had gone to the United States -- where it is legal -- for another woman to carry their babies. Authorities in France had refused to list Sylvie Mennesson as the children's legal mother on their birth certificates, with implications for their nationality and inheritance rights. SOUNDBITE