[title] Parent Numero Uno? / I am Number One. [I need help choosing which one]
[validity] Same-Sex Marriage/Relationship Allowed, Allow Same-Sex Adoption.
[desc] After allowing same-sex marriage, there was an influx of same-sex parents and adopters complaining to you about the marriage and adoption form. The problem? The parental fields still state “Father” and “Mother” in black and white. You have been bothered about this issue in your office, in turn filled with wailing infants and their new parents trying to comfort them.
[option 1] ”Well, well, would you look at that!” exclaims @@RANDOMFEMALENAME@@, with a kid in tow and slamming down the Adoption Form 169A onto your desk, “Mother and Father? Why do we even have that, may I ask? Sure, this was way before homosexual relationships were legalised or recognised, but we live in the modern era and I say that this Mother and Father thing needs to be struck out now! Might I suggest Parent A and Parent B, for that matter?” @@SHE@@ leans forward and whispers to you, “After all, both you and I know that I am the Parent Alpha, if you know what I mean.”
[effect] children only heard and know about their “secondary parent” through stories and legends
[option 2] ”Now wait just a darn minute over here!” interjects @@RANDOMMALENAME@@ and shoves everyone aside, before adjusting his glasses and clearing his throat, “What is it with all this Alpha and Beta talk once again? Are we seriously going to classify parents like we did back in high school? Ugh, my dearest @@LEADER@@, I got something rather elegant for you and your government bean counters. Look at this!” he gently lays out a piece of document on your desk, crumpled and torn at some parts, “Maxtopia’s Adoption Form! Look how elegant and simple it is! Just two Parent/Guardian fields, none of those Parent A, Parent B bull. While you are at it, perhaps you can make the ranking system for everything else meaningless? No more Alphas or Betas, no more first, second or thirds! Just you and me, and everyone being equal.”
[effect] businesses have a hard time choosing from a group of homogeneous candidates
[option 3] “@@LEADER@@, remember why all of this happened all over again!” yells out your advisor from across the room, while avoiding eye contact with the parents in the office, “Do you want these people to make such a fuss and embarrass out great nation again? What would the international press say when they heard that @@NATION@@ was bickering over so-so-some pointless exercise in frustration! You must prevent these kind of people from marrying at once! These people thought that they can just storm into the office like that, and you tell them that you don’t take into that nonsense!”
[effect] the homosexual couples have gone back into their closets to bid their undoing
And that was that for now. Inspired by that NSG thread, and after some discussion on Discord, I figured that I would put it here for evaluation, and hey, as a draft to submit if well-received and refined!
