Parental unit
this post was submitted on 10 May 2025
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Obviously it combines Mother and Father, or: M'F'er
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Isn't that technically all biological dads?
The existence of the term "biological dad" implies the existence of an "artificial dad"
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One of my friends has a mom and a nom. Works well enough.
Love it.
Short for mother and nother?
"oi! Fuckface!"
Sometimes I miss australia.
That would be fun at parent-teacher conferences!
I should call her.
my son calls me baba. i've met other enby parents that use the same term. i originally heard it on blues clues lol
Baba Is You!
That's very cute!
"Honored Ancestor" and "Blessed Forebear" are always appropriate.
I'm not nonbinary but my son just calls me Michael.
Which is odd because your name is Darrell.
What about his brother Darrell?
That cracked me up lol
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My friend's father transitioned to a woman but she kept calling her "Dad". Not to invalidate her identity just that they were both happy to continue describing their relationship with that term.
I read the title as a programming question at first...
I’d imagine that this is something that varies from family to family.
Very individualized as per need. Non-binary is an umbrella term for a whole bunch of different situations so what feels right is going to be very different for someone who feels like say a mix of masculine and feminine versus someone who has dysphoric reactions to any and all gender markers. It's going to be different for someone whose identity is more static than say someone who fluidly bounces between extremes.
If you know someone who is non-binary that's essentially just the tip of the iceberg of a whole discussion about how they personally interact with their body or the culture of gender. A lot of people seem to treat it as a full stop third category which can actually be a disservice to a non-binary person because it oftentimes just leads to a lot of new assumptions and frames out some of the ways they could be better treated than just as automatically genderless. I've heard of mixes of Mom/Dad for bigender people, just Mom or Dad for trans masc/femme folk, Completely new words that do not have cultural baggage, or just "my parent". It's not a one size fits all situation.
I appreciate the thoughtful reply.
The words "mom" and "dad" are both derived from baby babble, syllables babies have an easy time making.
I therefore suggest that an enby parent should be a child's wawa
I like this. It would be awesome to be named after a gas station chain.
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“Commander”
If I were a nonbinary parent, I’d definitely go with “elder”.
People will think you’re Mormon
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so I don't think it would come up with non-binary children
You'd be surprised 😅
I just mean that I don't often hear parents addressing their kids as "Son" except in '50s media! I'm sure it happens.
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and what about enby grandparents?
Grandy seems an easy choice.
I was wondering the other day why gran is always the grandma not the grandpa
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Probably depends on the kid. In the right house with the right mindset I bet parents could use first names. Otherwise it will probably be a special word to all of them, maybe something the kid calls them one day that sticks.
Maybe the parents will look to the internet or peers for answers and get stuff like "guardian" "my other parent" etc but ultimately the real question you should ask is how a child addresses their two same-gendered parents, maybe there's something to contexutalize there.
I was going to say it's definitely a case by case basis and what both parents and kids are comfortable with. With same-gender couples, I've often seen with my friends using two different gendered honorifics, like "mom" and "mama" or "dad" and "papa".
With trans people, often times it depends on when they came out. If before the child was born, or they were really young, I know a lot of parents will switch what they use, but for many people the title becomes something beyond gender. I've met a trans woman who transitioned later in life and was still "dad" to her kids because her role as a dad didn't invalidate her gender as a woman. In the same vein, I've known nonbinary folk who have kept "mom" or "dad" after coming out, went with a less traditional title, or even just made one up either something fun and ungendered (think something like "babi"). I've also heard people just using a diminutive of they're name, like rather than the kid saying "my parent, Sam" it becomes "my Sammy".
The fun thing about language is that it changes to fit the needs of people and groups, so we can just make it up as we go!
My nephew has a dad and a mawpa, but there are lots of options out there. It's wise to choose syllable sounds that babies can easily pronounce.
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