Education Department Slashes ‘Father,’ ‘Mother’ From Student Aid Forms
11th May 2013
Instead, the Department of Education announced Thursday that income would be listed “from a dependent student’s legal parents regardless of the parents’ marital status or gender, if those parents live together.” Instead of “father,” the societally-sensitive term “Parent 1” will be used. And for “mother,” the term will be “Parent 2.”
After all, these archaic categories are just so fifteen minutes ago.