The first item is about two gay women, one of them talks about being a mum, the second item's about a mother who wanted time off to look after the kids. How would replacing words like mother and father with 'parent' change anything there?
In the linked example a female footballer referred to her role as a "mum". Hey what about male footballers roles as "dads"? What's the big difference?
I am not for a minute suggesting do away with "mother/mum" and "father/dad" in everyday parlance.
Just do away with legally different rights and obligations of the two different parties - i,e either sex paternal rather than maternal leave., childcare etc.
What's the big deal about the cabinet now having a mum? It has plenty of dads. A Mum's role / perspective is no different to a Dad's role / perspective.
Of course not having had women in the cabinet is a significant issue.
Do they, pugamo? Once the child is weaned - or even before that if he or she is bottle-fed - I can't think of any 'role' that cannot be performed by either the mother or the father. Obviously if one parent is working and the other isn't, that will effect the division of duties. Likewise if both are working. But as far as feeding, nappy-changing, reading to/playing with the child, settling them for the night, seeing to them if they wake up, taking them to the doctor when necessary, etc, etc, and then, later, doing the school run, getting the school uniform, ensuring they do their homework and so on, none of these activities is gender-specific. All can be carried out by either the mother or the father.
In the linked example a female footballer referred to her role as a "mum". Hey what about male footballers roles as "dads"? What's the big difference?
I am not for a minute suggesting do away with "mother/mum" and "father/dad" in everyday parlance.
Just do away with legally different rights and obligations of the two different parties - i,e either sex paternal rather than maternal leave., childcare etc.
What's the big deal about the cabinet now having a mum? It has plenty of dads. A Mum's role / perspective is no different to a Dad's role / perspective.
Of course not having had women in the cabinet is a significant issue.
what you are suggesting is already there, mothers and fathers can split paternity / maternity if they want of one or the other can take it.
Parent is on all other relevant paperwork. Of course a female is going to refer to herself as a mum because she is just like a male will refer to himself as dad. They do not have differing rights or legal obligations
Do they, pugamo? Once the child is weaned - or even before that if he or she is bottle-fed - I can't think of any 'role' that cannot be performed by either the mother or the father. Obviously if one parent is working and the other isn't, that will effect the division of duties. Likewise if both are working. But as far as feeding, nappy-changing, reading to/playing with the child, settling them for the night, seeing to them if they wake up, taking them to the doctor when necessary, etc, etc, and then, later, doing the school run, getting the school uniform, ensuring they do their homework and so on, none of these activities is gender-specific. All can be carried out by either the mother or the father.
I for one am still not getting your point as what you seem to want is already how it is, unless you want kids to stop calling their parents mum or dad which isn't going to happen
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In the linked example a female footballer referred to her role as a "mum". Hey what about male footballers roles as "dads"? What's the big difference?
I am not for a minute suggesting do away with "mother/mum" and "father/dad" in everyday parlance.
Just do away with legally different rights and obligations of the two different parties - i,e either sex paternal rather than maternal leave., childcare etc.
What's the big deal about the cabinet now having a mum? It has plenty of dads. A Mum's role / perspective is no different to a Dad's role / perspective.
Of course not having had women in the cabinet is a significant issue.
It really doesn't, you know.
what you are suggesting is already there, mothers and fathers can split paternity / maternity if they want of one or the other can take it.
Parent is on all other relevant paperwork. Of course a female is going to refer to herself as a mum because she is just like a male will refer to himself as dad. They do not have differing rights or legal obligations
even though me and my sons dad are divorced, we make equal decisions about whats best for our boy - and sign stuff for school and that
most school letters say parent/carer - he's at special school so there are a lot of looked after children.
No, it's really not. Some children out there have either two mothers or two dads. In other words, gay parents.
Agreed.
I for one am still not getting your point as what you seem to want is already how it is, unless you want kids to stop calling their parents mum or dad which isn't going to happen