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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am technically a boy mom though I don't use that phrase but aren't you reading something into it that's not there?
I think there is an element of wistfulness there. When I pictured being a mother I admit I pictured a little girl a lot like myself. Motherhood has been completely different with boys though of course wonderful! So I think there's a "making your own happiness" component to that.
[b]There is no "mom of both" identity because those people are considered to have the ideal situation.[/b]
There is also a whole girl-mom social scene that the moms of boys are completely left out of. My kids have their few best friends and I see those moms but we never get together in big groups the way the girls seem to.[/quote]

There's also no "girl mom" or "boy dad" identity, it's a thing specific to opposite gender parents, and mostly women not men; self-conscious "girl dads" are way less common than "boy moms." I'm not sure what that says about people that identify this way (I don't and I'm a dad of one girl, so I COULD), but I think it's more than just "one of each is ideal."[/quote]

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