The U.S. passport application process is taking a step toward gender neutrality by dropping the words “mother” and “father” from their forms.
According to a recent Fox News report, applicants will soon be required to fill out spaces labeled “Parent One” and “Parents Two,” instead.
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Feminist Philosophers 
It’s a step away from heteronormativity, more precisely, yes yes?
Agreed, I don’t see any other way to interpret it. It’s a nice nod that the traditional setup isn’t the only viable one…you’d think stuff like this would be standard.
Unfortunately, this was changed from a full victory to a partial one:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/09/MNAV1H6AQ7.DTL