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No Kid Has "Two Dads”

Anytime you see a child with two dads, you know mom is missing

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Them Before Us
Oct 07, 2025
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This was one of the most disturbing papers we’d seen in a while.

The author, a gay man who used a surrogate and egg donor to acquire a child, was joking about his daughter calling him “mommy dad” and his partner being annoyed that it must be a stage the child was going through.

“Mommy” is both the near-universal term for mother as well as children’s oft-s…

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