evidence: No, Democrats are not eliminating the right of Americans to call parents mom and dad [...] Grothman claimed Democrats want "a world in which you cannot call your parents mom and dad." [...] But he dramatically overstates the impact, which he acknowledged in his news release is "largely symbolic." The rules do not apply to every day life, or constrain Grothman or anyone else from referring to their mother and father as, well, Mom and Dad.