Tennessee courts go gender free: 'Parent 1' and 'Parent 2' replace 'mother' and 'father'
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (Christian Examiner) -- Children will now have "Parent 1" and "Parent 2" instead of a mommy and a daddy, according to Tennessee's Administrative Office of the Courts.
Shortly after the Supreme Court redefined marriage, the state's Office of the Courts revised its documents. A spokesperson for the courts confirmed to me that the words "Mother" and "Father" had been replaced by the terms "Parent 1" and "Parent 2."
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I was alerted to the gender-neutral parenting documents by Kendra Armstrong, a family law attorney in Memphis and one of my longtime readers.
"Why are heterosexual parents having their rights violated?" she asked. "So now it's improper and inappropriate in a court of law to refer to a parent as a mother and a father?
The court spokesperson did not elaborate on why they felt compelled to change the longtime wording or whether Parent 1 brings home the bacon or whether Parent 2 wears the pants in the relationship.