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Do you know about laws in California?
I heard that it is no longer legal for children to call their parents "mom" and "dad" in California. This sounds so absurd that I'm thinking I must have been misinformed. Can anyone tell me where such an idea might have come from?
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- ShadowCatLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
I think it was scrapped, but there are others equally ridiculous and dangerous to children attending school there.
Source(s): Web Info: onenewsnow.com blessedcause.org - StephenWeinsteinLv 71 decade ago
It is not true.
The state was considering a law that would have prohibited schools from discriminating against children of same-sex couples (homosexuals). A group opposed to this law falsely stated that this law would prevent teachers from telling students to have their "mom and dad" sign forms and would required the teachers to instead say "parents" in case there were two moms or two dads, instead of one of each. Somehow, this falsehood got further warped to the point that you heard the story as being a ban on anyone using the words "mom" and "dad", even though the rule, which does not really exist, only applied to schools, not to the children themselves.
Source(s): In an exceptional irony, even by California standards, I learned of the actual law, and the misinterpretation, from another question on Yahoo! Answers. - erdahlLv 45 years ago
What Neil mentioned. Some CA legislation are lovely well, a few are not. I could additionally upload, that plenty of "California" legislation that I've heard folks whinge approximately (immoderate allows required, smoking banned in flats, and so on) are honestly regional ordinances, no longer state legislation.