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How should children address their parents?

Hayden Mathias digs for her buzzing iPhone, and taps the FaceTime icon. “Oh, hey Dave,” the tall, blond haired eighth-grader says to the face filling her screen. Is it her boyfriend? Her slacker biology lab partner? Guess again. Dave is Hayden’s dad.

For more than a year, the 47-year-old Denver software sales executive has been Dave to his 13-year old youngest daughter. Read_More_button

Source: Diana Kapp, online.wsj.com