I’ve already signed dozens of forms for my two children just three years into parenthood, and each one adds to my building frustration, pain and exhaustion.
Every time, I start off my relationship with the institutions caring for my children feeling resentment, because of the carelessness behind a few simple words.
Almost all of the forms ask for information about my children’s mother and father. But, like the majority of American families with children, our family does not consist of two different-sex parents in their first marriage.
My kids have two mothers and no father. So, 16 years after marriage equality came to my state of Massachusetts, and five years after it became recognized in all of the United States, why am I still filling out.