Closed stoicflame closed 12 years ago
I think partners
is more clear because you can have marriages with no children. In this case, parents
is confusing.
I think partners is more clear because you can have marriages with no children. In this case, parents is confusing.
I was thinking that the purpose of Family
would be to model families and a marriage (with no children) would be modeled with an event.
IMO "partner" is not only using a new word to describe something that has always been "parent" in the genealogical community, but to me, "partner" just isn't clear. You can have a "partner" in a business relationship, too. And it doesn't make sense to say "Here's a family with children Fred and Mary; their partners are John and Susie." Ick.
FWIW, I'm not trying to impose some kind of gender constraint here. I'm just trying to model consistency and clarity. I don't think you'd propose renaming the parents
property of Person
to partners
, so lets stay consistent. Even in a family with no children it makes sense to me to say "parents".
Hi. Just waking up this thread. So can I apply this?
I'd still prefer partners
, but I don't feel that strongly about it. So as long as nobody thinks parents
is confusing for families without children...
On Sep 20, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Ryan Heatonreply@reply.github.com wrote:
Hi. Just waking up this thread. So can I apply this?
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I feel bad, but I can't help feeling pretty strongly about this.
I noticed the other day an ad for an insurance agency that said "your family's partners since 1956" and I thought that if we ever needed to supply information about the insurance agent for a family, then the partners
property would be perfect for that!
But since modeling the insurance agents for a family isn't a priority at the moment, I really think we need to supply the parents of a family and drop the partners
property.
So unless there's strong objections, I'm going to apply this change.
I propose we rename 'partner' to 'parent' for consistency with the
parents
property on person and for consistency in industry.