February 2012
Wording Revised in New Gender-Neutral Passports →
Washington, DC, January 12, 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered the State Department to amend a bureaucratic change that would have replaced “Mother” and “Father” with “Mother or parent 1” and “Father or parent 2” on U.S. passports.
“The government is finally recognizing the reality that many children are being raised by same-sex parents,” said Rea Carey, executive...