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“It sounds like you're less because you haven't had a child. There are many different ways to be a mom in the world," Cattrall, 59, said in an interview with BBC Radio.

Do you agree with Kim Cattrall's opinion that you don't have to be a biological parent, to be a parent? And why?

Cattrall said that she is a parent as she has young actors and actresses that she mentors and nieces and nephews whom she is close to.

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Meh. Someone is always offended about something these days.



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Yeah, why even bother to talk to anyone? It's a waste of time. Seems most people just want to invent ways to feel pissed off as the very special snowflakes they are.

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If you don't have a child you ARE childless. Some people are childless by choice and others by circumstances beyond their control. Being a mentor or a close aunt doesn't change the definition of a word no matter how offensive she finds it.

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Well, the "there are many different ways to be a mom in the world" sounds like now we are going redefine who is a mother so that it also no longer means anything. That is what the Libs do. They think that by altering language, then that somehow alters reality. IF we just call a He a She, then somehow that makes it so.

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Good point LGS. It does seem they are trying to change the meaning of words and symbols in order to get their way.

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Oh ffs.

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I thought "But you AREN'T a parent if you don't have kids." You can be a great Aunt or mentor but you're still not that child's parent.

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Or adopt them, or at the very least, raise them in your home.

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I have a number of different Moms. At least one of them does not have children of her own. Whatever. She still loves me.

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It's not about love Tig. You can love someone's child, mentor them, and feeling motherly toward them. That's legit. Like FNW you have to have responsibility of them to be called a parent. When you care for a child 24/7 it's different. I can't explain it but it is.

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I am childless & I am offended that she is offended by the term!

Not really I think she sounds like an idiot. She does not have children, biological, adopted or otherwise therefor she is in fact childless. It is a fact. Why be offended?

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Lexxy & myself are childless!

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It takes more than biology to be a parent. It takes..well...parenting. There can be women who gave birth and gave their child up for adoption. They are childless. There are women who raised a sister's daughter as her own. She is not childless.

I was childless for 44 years. I never thought to be offended about it.

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FNW wrote:

It takes more than biology to be a parent. It takes..well...parenting. There can be women who gave birth and gave their child up for adoption. They are childless. There are women who raised a sister's daughter as her own. She is not childless.

I was childless for 44 years. I never thought to be offended about it.

 I know!  It's like all of a sudden saying, "She doesn't have kids." is a bad thing.  It's not good or bad.  It's a simple statement.  It describes the person.  Just like race or hair color or eye color.



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I'm wondering if she regrets not having kids.

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I have MANY women in my life who have mentored me, given me guidance, etc...


But I have only ONE mother. She is irreplaceable.

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Well, I'm offended that she would dare compare "mentoring" to "mothering". They are NOT the same thing.

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Lawyerlady wrote:

Well, I'm offended that she would dare compare "mentoring" to "mothering". They are NOT the same thing.

 Parents are there 24/7.



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