Children are no longer born to mothers and fathers.<\/p>\n
They’re born to parents<\/i>; specifically, Parent One and Parent Two.<\/p>\n
At least so says the US Department of State. And a very sorry state that is indeed.<\/p>\n
And it will get sorrier, is my forecast. At some point, they will “get real” and make room for Parent Three.<\/p>\n
But never mind the forecast. Here’s shades-of-Dr-Zeuss the story<\/a>:<\/p>\n The words \u201cmother\u201d and \u201cfather\u201d will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says.<\/p>\n \u201cThe words in the old form were \u2018mother\u2019 and \u2018father,\u2019\u201d said Brenda Sprague, deputy assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services. “They are now \u2018parent one\u2019 and \u2018parent two.\u2019”<\/p>\n A statement on the State Department website noted: \u201cThese improvements are being made to provide a gender neutral description of a child\u2019s parents and in recognition of different types of families.\u201d The statement didn’t note if it was for child applications only.<\/p>\n The State Department said the new passport applications, not yet available to the public, will be available online soon.<\/p>\n Sprague said the decision to remove the traditional parenting names was not an act of political correctness.<\/p>\n \u201cWe find that with changes in medical science and reproductive technology that we are confronting situations now that we would not have anticipated 10 or 15 years ago,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n The new gender-neutral passport application will be rolled out in February.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “Improvements”? Then we measure by different standards.<\/p>\n “Not an act of political correctness”? Oh. OK. Right.<\/p>\n “Changes in…reproductive technology”? Eh? Two men can now reproduce together? As can two women? \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n America’s downward slide accelerates. And the condition isn’t unique to the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Children are no longer born to mothers and fathers. They’re born to parents; specifically, Parent One and Parent Two. At least so says the US Department of State. And a very sorry state that is indeed. And it will get sorrier, is my forecast. At some point, they will “get real” and make room for … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,395,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-noah","category-dumb-and-such","category-suspension-of-disbelief","category-youve-been-warned"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-xr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}