Is a gay female couple refered to as madres or padres?
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If the masculine plural of father is used for parents, is it also used for gay female parents? It is a strange new world.
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updated Jan 20, 2012
posted by neilsander
Very interesting question! - NikkiLR, Jan 20, 2012
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In Spanish it is typical to use the masculine when you have a mixed gender group. But if it is all females, you use the feminine. So even though "parents" is typically translated as "los padres" that assumes a mother and a father. If the parents of a child are two women, I would use "las madres".
updated Jan 20, 2012
posted by gintar77
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I don't know the answer to this question in Spanish because it could be a cultural thing, but gay couples in English are the two mothers, or the two fathers. I would suspect it might be the same in Spanish? Las madres de la niña, o Los padres de la niña.
updated Aug 10, 2011
posted by elainepnj
