"Giving Birth to a Child Doesn't Make Someone a Mother"

[the_bob_delusion]

Discuss. 

[azureline**]

Yes it does............... Mother as a noun does............... Mother as a verb is quite different.

[***super_nova***]

Of-course, it does:

mother

ˈmʌðə/

noun

noun: mother; plural noun: mothers;

1. 1.

   a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth.

Not every mother is a good mother, some are not good people but  any woman that gave birth to a child is a mother.  Just as any man who sired a child is a father, even if he never gave 2 hoots about the child.  The child has his genes, and he is the child's father.

[polksaladallie]

Oscar Wilde 

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”

Love this quote, so true.

[the_bob_delusion]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

Of-course, it does:

mother

ˈmʌðə/

noun

noun: mother; plural noun: mothers;

1. 1.

   a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth.

Not every mother is a good mother, some are not good people but  any woman that gave birth to a child is a mother.  Just as any man who sired a child is a father, even if he never gave 2 hoots about the child.  The child has his genes, and he is the child's father.

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when we're able to clone people from cells other than from the Ovum or sperm, would they have a mother or father???? If man are able to incubate the baby til birth, are they the mother???? definition will probably change with time. 

[polksaladallie]

Both of those scenarios are possible now.

[polksaladallie]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Both of those scenarios are possible now.

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Make that possible now, but an ovum (from anywhere) is necessary.  Sperm is not.

[stephii952012]

I really think the sad cases are when doc's have been called and still let the child be with the parents then the child ends up hurt or wose.

[icyfroth]

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@stephii952012 wrote:

I really think the sad cases are when doc's have been called and still let the child be with the parents then the child ends up hurt or wose.

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Hi Steph welcome to CS 

[polksaladallie]

[the_bob_delusion]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Both of those scenarios are possible now.

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Make that possible now, but an ovum (from anywhere) is necessary.  Sperm is not.

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So will men become obsolete in the future?