Preschool asks gay dads: “Which one is the mother?”

Guy Sadaka and Hai Aviv. Photo by Etty Gennis

A gay couple in Israel has spoken out about harassment by a preschool when officials had the nerve to ask the men “Which one’s the mother?”

Guy Sadaka and Hai Aviv had applied to enroll their two-year-old twins in a government-subsidized preschool program in Tel Aviv. While on the phone with the school, an application agent demanded to know which man was the mother of the girls.

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“I understand that you are both fathers and that you run a shared household, but there is always the one who is more dominant, who is more ‘the mother,’” the agent said, according to Sadaka. “I am just asking for a written statement declaring which of you is the mother. From the point of view of the work — who works less than the father? Like in a normal family.”

That question just speaks volumes, doesn’t it?

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Rather than react in anger, Sadaka & Aviv have gone public with the experience. “It kind of made me laugh,” Sadaka told NBC News. “But this ignorance in a government office when it’s just about 2020 just seems crazy to me. I felt frustrated that I have to give answers that don’t make any sense.”

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