How will the abolition of mums and dads effect us and our babies?

[kfca]

Does anyone else mind not being recognised as the mother of their baby, if the law changes, maybe in the new year, with the marriage changes?
Will mumsnet have to rename itself as LegalParentAnet?

[EmmaNess]

breatheslowly I think that category is reserved for mutants

do you have x ray vision or can you blast things to dust with your eyes or have massive sideburns and knives shooting out of your knuckles?

[kfca]

Re: adoptive parents, sadly, very very few children are adopted in the UK, and most are older children. The very, very, vast majority are born to and remain with their own natural 'mother', at least in the early years. I guess you lot never really appreciated your own mothers very much, or considered how your babies may appreciate having a mummy :/

Best wishes with your pregnancies.

[Selim]

Legal parent D is quite welcome to wash 9 swimming towels a week if he/she wishes too. I think its unlikely And legal child A won't eat potatoes and legal child B only eats potatoes. can't wait for legal parent C to start cooking.

[RoffleCopter]

Legal Parent ROBOTS.

[Selim]

I appreciate both my mothers, thanks.

[Bluestocking]

OP, does your nickname stand for Kentucky Fried Chicken Addict? If so, you might want to consider cutting down - some of those additives can really fry your synapses.

[noblegiraffe]

I'm pretty sure my baby will still have a mummy. I don't think the police will be around my house if she calls me that.

[GalaxyDisaster]

Pregnancies? Most of us on here aren't pregnant you know?!

And it's nothing to do with appreciating a parent.

I think you need to explain yourself a bit better, because you are making no sense.

[breatheslowly]

I have massive sideburns, is that enough?

[Sirzy]

I guess you lot never really appreciated your own mothers very much, or considered how your babies may appreciate having a mummy :/

I appreciate my mother a hell of a lot, but the name that she has on a form doesn't change that. On some forms she is down as my next of kin but I still generally call her mum "next of kin" is too much of a mouthful for normal day to day use!

[breatheslowly]

I appreciate my mother enormously, but that hasn't stopped me from genuinely thinking of her as "Parent 1" quite a lot of the time.

[RoffleCopter]

Noble giraffe - that's where you're wrong. When the new law comes in it will lead to the abolition of mummies. And I for one, welcome the new dark overlord's regime.

[EmmaNess]

Ah, so adopters/adopted children don't count because they're a minority, and those of us confused and in disagreement are so because we're beyatches who hated our mummies and don't care about our wee babbies?

OR, maybe you don't like being disagreed with.

[PandaWatch]

OP you seemed to be concerned that there are plans afoot to create some sort of parenting collective where numerous randoms end up with equal parenting rights to the child's parents - is that right?

[Valpollicella]

Actually just snorted wine out at Senior Duck Fucker HoneyDragon

[EmmaNess]

breatheslowly I'm not sure - as well as the facial hair you may also need another freakish power. Freakish power B, we'll call it.

[highlove]

It's not fair. First I find I can't have kids. And now I suppose that means I won't even get to be abolished like the rest of you. You legal parent As have it all you know.

Seriously OP, you are making no sense at all and aren't really coming across all that positively, IMHO.

[breatheslowly]

Emma - as far as I am aware I just have the sideburns. They are luxuriant, but my only superpower. Perhaps I will be "Parent M" instead if I can't be Parent X and when asked say "M is for mummy, ha take that you mad liberals".

[TheDoctrineOfSnatch]

How about NOK A and NOK B, short for next of kin?

[noblegiraffe]

I'm not being a Knocker.

[EmmaNess]

Ah, I think you've run into another problem breatheslowly. Parent M is the boss of secret agent parents. On the other hand, perhaps this will gain you fear and respec' in the playground, and Daniel Craig will appear in your bedroom.

It's a fucking minefield. This simply hasn't been thought through. Maybe a series of initials would tick all the non-gender specific boxes.

Thank you, OP, and your curious yet ironic quartet of letters for a nickname, I won't sleep tonight.

[FrequentFlyerRandomDent]

I have been called "Parent of DC" in every letter from the NHS pertaining to any of my DCs for the last six years.

I would prefer they address me as Random really.

[breatheslowly]

I'll tell DD that I am to be called Parent M from now on, whether it becomes law or not. I need Daniel Craig in my bedroom.