Two mummies and two daddies...

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Just heard this read aloud from the back of a CBeebies birthday card - Happy Birthday from your two mummies and two daddies...

How does that even work?

*AIBU to think it's a bit odd?

Mum and dad separate.
Mum and her partner = 1 mum and 1 dad
Dad and his partner = 1 mum and 1 dad
= 2 mums and 2 dads

Perhaps 2 gay couples that had a baby via ivf.

Probably mother and same sex partner and father and same sex partner, who all see themselves as parents.
How wonderful for a child to have so many people to love them! No, I don't think its at all odd.

Or what they said ^
Its not really odd. It'd be nice to have that many people love you as their own.

Mum and Dad plus Step Mum and Step Dad?

Or 2 gay couples have a baby together?

Step parents.

Gay couples or split parents with new partners. Not odd at all. Agree is wonderful a child has so many people who love them and spend time with them. Lucky child :)

I think that it's highly likely it's a divorced couple, biological parents and then their new partners. How lovely that it's all amicable and they get on enough to do a joint birthday card. Not something you hear happening very often!

There should be a comma after 'biological parents' !

lol @ people pretending it's not at all unusual or odd in the name of political correctness

you are allowed to say it's nice without having to pretend it happens all the time, you know

It is nice.....but unusual in most of the examples above for to get on. So odd? Perhaps? Who knows. Everything and anything is acceptable nowadays....and if they all love the lo enough to send a card together then that's good enough for me. Good luck to them all. Ho ho ho.

for them to get on
Doh.

Not odd. I considered myself to have two mums and two dads when I was younger (parents with new partners). It's nice that they thought to all send a card together.

Thats really lovely regardless of whether its 2 same sex couples or a step family, what a lucky child.

But why couldn't they just say "Mummy and daddy". Or even "Both your Mummies and Daddies"

It's a bit flaunty

anyway sending a card to be read out on cbeebies is incredibly common

I had 3 mummies and 1 daddy. Mum and dad got divorced when I was 2. Dad met stepmum, mum met stepmum. Both relationships are going strong 25 years later

My poor dh when we married had 3 lots of in-laws, dad+stepmum, mum+stepdad2, stepdad1(from mums 2nd marridge)+his wife, made for interesting photos of the bride's parents

HiggyJig - It may be unusual but that doesn't make it 'odd'. people are not saying it is usual, necessarily. . And it isn't that much of a stretch of the imagination to work out different scenarios that could lead to such a message. People are just expressing that - not how 'PC' they are.

Sounds like a lot of people to love the child, good stuff

I think it's odd for the same reason that you don't see cards saying "Happy birthday from your two grannies and two grandpas", ie, each couple buys their own card.

Isn't this just a variation on giving the poor child who's born on 25th Dec only one present?

That's so lovely, four parents to love a child. Lucky kid!

Pumpkin, but parents don't give individual cards 'from Mummy' and 'from Daddy'.

If four parents see themselves as a united parenting unit, then that's brilliant. I have friends who approach the parenting of their children in this way - their mothers have the children part of the week, and fathers the other half.

It's unusual but to me it's perfectly unsurprising and quite normal.

It's not that unusual, ffs. Sounds like two gay dads and two lesbian mums. Nice.