Kids Of Same-Sex Couples Are Sharing How They Name Their Parents In Their Phone (15 Posts)

Do you have an elaborate system for keeping contacts in your phone? Do you give people nicknames, just use first names, or use their entire name? What if you have contacts with the same name? What if your parents are the same sex? Do you have a way to distinguish one mom from the other? On Reddit, people are sharing the ways they keep their same-sex parents in their phone—and the answers are kind of funny and sweet. 

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“A second cousin of mine has two gay dads. Horribly uninteresting his contacts are ‘Dad David” and “Dad Randal.’ One is biologically his father, but he doesn’t know which. He’s compared genetic traits and he thinks he knows which because of attached earlobes, but as he doesn’t know his biological mother he has never been able to confirm. His two dad’s ‘mixed’ samples, then used an anonymous egg donor carried by a surrogate. He likes to bring up that it took four people to create him.” — scionoflogic

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“Dad. Also Dad.” — fandomfighter29

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“I don’t have same sex parents but my friend does. He saves them as Ma’am and Mom (one of them is kinda strict whilst the other one isn’t as bad), and his sister saves them as Mum and Mom.” — Confident_Nobody69

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“My coworker has two dads. One is Dad and the other is Pops.” — KuhjaKnight

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“Mama J and Mama Lo.” — calamityjane515

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“My dads are saved as ‘white dad’ and ‘black dad,’ since one is white and one is black.” — Jackscalibur

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“One of my friends has two dads. One’s ‘Cool Dad’ and the other is ‘Awesome Dad.'” — aiowaitre

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“There’s a significant height disparity between myself and my wife. So we’ve been calling ourselves ‘Tall Mom’ and ‘Small Mom’ but we’re not sure that’s going to stick. Our little one is currently two and calls us both Mom or Mama indiscriminately. We respond to both. But we also respond to inarticulate screaming, so hopefully that will change in the future.” — Sophiesaunt

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“Am I the only one who put their parents in their phone under their actual names?” — Herp_derpelson

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“My friends’ kid calls them tattoo daddy and glasses daddy (she’s 4).” — FredDashwood