Request for terminology

[aesmael]

    The main character in a story I am writing was the child of a polyamourous triad and I find myself stuck for how to refer to family members. I was mostly having problems referring to her non-biological parent, but other terms would help too.

Comments

[flynnacatri.livejournal.com]

Do you need 'technical'terms? eg wife-of-mother and birth mother?
Do they need to differentiate between actual physical relationships? Mother/father/ and 'blood'mother/father?

They could just use different forms - mama, mother, mom, father, dada, daddy, papa, or other endearments specific to the person...

More formal terms (can't be bothered to write 'father' as well... insert at will)- lovemother/bloodparent/fostermother/polywife/mama/othermother/altma - alt mother or alpha XP... bored now.

[flynnacatri.livejournal.com]

Assuming this is a more-or-less contemporary setting? Otherwise you can make up whatever you like...

[chaoticset.livejournal.com]

Children of non-het couples seem perfectly fine with having more than one mommy or daddy...

[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

I tried writing a story about an all female planet (where every lifeform was a single gender, but female b/c I just like that gender :] ) but I failed in how they might reproduce :(

[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

I think it should be mom, dad and super-dad/mom :]

[osakadensetsu.livejournal.com]

I read an article just the other day with a 1x male, 2x female triad of parents. The child calls her parents daddy, mommy, and mama. One could simply nuance between different preexisting titles (Three moms? Mom, mommy, mama. Three dads? Dad, daddy, papa). I'm not sure if this kind of thing is what you mean, but figured I'd pass it along. :D

[flynnacatri.livejournal.com]

Read "Ammonite" by Nicola Griffith. Self induced pregnancy, with DNA spread via a virus.

[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

:O

I read and learnt about lots of different ways in fiction XD But none of them seemed the way I wanted it to be. :\

[flynnacatri.livejournal.com]

Read it anyway. I command it!
It is basically exactly what you described and is good! It might help in other ways.

[osakadensetsu.livejournal.com]

Parthogenesis!

Either that or genetic engineering to fertilize one person's ovum with genetic material from another person.

[flynnacatri.livejournal.com]

There was another one I read recently... all the lifeforms were female because the powerful alien (happened to be male) who lived there kept resurrecting them, using the native treeforms - regrew from the bones in the jelly ... He chose to not resurrect the males because they were unneccessary and reincarnated himself many times, leaving mounds of hi own skulls...