What do kids call their gay parents

We are a two mom lesbian family, and so, as well as coming up with a name for our daughter, we had to come up with names for ourselves. We did some research online and found a few different options that we could use:. We did like this option but felt it would get confusing, especially when our child was older and going to school. It sounded fine when I was a baby, but not so much when I was a university student among my peers!

Mother's Day, Father's Day. The world of parenting seems to be divided into two camps: the mom group and the dad crowd. But what about parents who don't identify with either? Turns out, there are plenty of non-traditional names for "mommy" and "daddy," and they represent as many genders as you can imagine.

The same questions gets asked on Gay Dad Private Facebook over and over and over: What do your kids call you? Gay Dad Private Facebook fills anxiously with the same question asked over and over and over: What do your kids call you? I try to peck out quick answers to these new dads on my phone. I explain that my son Luke calls me Dad and my husband is Dada.

Mommy, daddy or mama and dada are shouted just as much among children of LGBT parents in parks and Target — sometimes in mind-numbing repetition — as the straight community. But there is also a growing number of self-designated LGBT monikers for moms and dads like, Abba, which means dad in Hebrew and Maddie, an amalgamation of mommy and daddy, according to a recent story in the New York Times. One reason for adopting names beyond the traditional parent names, according to a Clark University study now under peer review, has to do with "undoing gender. Kahn told the "New York Times:".