First off, I am still relatively new here, and I hope I don’t offend anyone with any of these questions, but some things I’ve been wondering lately. And that I’m probably going to have to work through before too long.

Same sex/gender parents, do your children call both of you the same or different names?(mom/dad etc.)

Trans* parents, if you had children before you came out, did what they call you change? I’ve only been aware of one instance of this situation and the kids still called her dad.

  • WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Not a parent, but a child of lesbian parents. When I was a child, I think I mostly just used names but had one parent I used mom for. When talking to other people I would call them both my mom (the one who gave birth).

    That parent is no longer part of my life (she’s alive as far as I know) and I only refer to her as birth-mo. When directly referring to my other mom, I still say her name tho. I also have a stepmom, who also sometimes gets called mom when talking to others and sometimes stepmom.

    My cousin has a child who refers to her parents as two different versions of mom (like mama and mom, but I forget exactly what they use) and that seems to work fine too.