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I think that it doesn't matter who takes their dad's name or mum's name (hyphenated or not). Don't blame the author if they are all heterosexual because they get to make that decision. Also it's a kids book for 12 and under, and I don't think you should make a big deal out of that stuff.
I wasn’t blaming the author. And it does matter that a book my son is reading shows that EVERY child has the dad’s name. We all make choices, but if a woman doesn’t take her husband’s name, at least some of the time you’d expect the kid to have her name. I agree the multisyllabic hyphenated names is difficult (I am reading this out loud) but one of the kids should stick with the mom. And, Ainsley, the invisibility of non-normative people in middle-grade novels helps to perpetuate the myth that everyone is CiS, white, and male. I reached out to one author who is making a point in his book to be inclusive of race and asked him to consider these other areas. I haven't seen the homosexual parents, yet, and look forward to getting to that part of the book. There was no "blame." I love these books and look forward to them as much as my kid. I just wanted to see myself and my friends in them more, and have my son see a book that valued women's position in a family as much as men's, especially since it is a book set so far on the future.
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May 14, 2018 02:37PM
I think that it doesn't matter who takes their dad's name or mum's name (hyphenated or not). Don't blame the author if they are all heterosexual because they get to make that decision. Also it's a kids book for 12 and under, and I don't think you should make a big deal out of that stuff.
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I wasn’t blaming the author. And it does matter that a book my son is reading shows that EVERY child has the dad’s name. We all make choices, but if a woman doesn’t take her husband’s name, at least some of the time you’d expect the kid to have her name. I agree the multisyllabic hyphenated names is difficult (I am reading this out loud) but one of the kids should stick with the mom. And, Ainsley, the invisibility of non-normative people in middle-grade novels helps to perpetuate the myth that everyone is CiS, white, and male. I reached out to one author who is making a point in his book to be inclusive of race and asked him to consider these other areas. I haven't seen the homosexual parents, yet, and look forward to getting to that part of the book. There was no "blame." I love these books and look forward to them as much as my kid. I just wanted to see myself and my friends in them more, and have my son see a book that valued women's position in a family as much as men's, especially since it is a book set so far on the future.
