I had a similar grumble to a friend a while back. My friend pointed out that me and my DH are a family, but I didn't want to agree with him at the time. But fact is, we ARE a family unit just by ourselves. Sure, the family is not complete and is smaller than we would like... but that just means we are waiting to grow. It will happen one day...

Of course, it's only rare moments that I can actually believe that and not get frustrated by how long it is taking us to work on increasing our family. And yes, the bias and the assumptions in the media do frustrate the hell out of me as well. I'm going to sit here and try to believe that the term "our kids" is referring to the children of the nation, in which case they do sort of belong to us... I guess with being a teacher I'm a bit more closely linked to a lot of kids from other families, so it's a bit easier to delude myself in such a way to decrease the irritation and frustration.

Fact is... they are thoughts I pound into my head so I'm not constantly exploding at all the implications and assumptions behind those comments and phrases. Maybe we should explode publicly a little more often and try to change the mindset... not sure it will work, though.