gay moms

You may be asking yourself, “Why cover that here? I have five books on baby names," but those books don’t address baby naming do’s and don’ts for gay parents. Names have a way of coming back to haunt us. How many of us wish our parents had just taken the time to write our initials-to-be down on paper and looked at them before bequeathing them to us? How many of us would be less traumatized today had our parents shut the baby name book and spent five minutes anticipating all the cruel innovations a creatively malicious mind could think up based on the name they had chosen.

Gay parents must be particularly careful about the names we give our children. Our children already have enough baggage to inspire the malicious minds of their schools’ lowest common denominators. There’s no excuse for adding fuel to the fire. So let’s review the rules for gay fathers and mothers to be.