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rdn
Posted Monday, May 16, 2005 - Post #7458
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How can I display a child of a single mother, having this child via artificial insemination (unknown father)? Should there be a new relationship (of "none") in the relationship list?

This will become more prevalent as time goes on. Any ideas?


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Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 - Post #7459
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It depends on what you want. I am not sure weather there is a rule about it.
Personaly, I put the unknown father.
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Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 - Post #7460
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I guess I am seeking a more elegant solution than unknown father. I am interested in displaying the fact that this mother was single, by intention and that the lineage should not be searched further back because the donor is anonymous.

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Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 - Post #7461
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You can either write all of this in the comments of the unknown father OR
Delete the father object and leave only the mother with your comments.
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Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 - Post #7462
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I know all of these solutions. I am still looking for something more elegant. Perhaps as a relationship type or some other solution.

How do other programs handle this?


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Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 - Post #7463
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I dont think that a single parent is a relationship of any kind. I look at it more as a status. In Legacy I can add any status that I want and I added a single parent as "Marriage Information" to indicate a single parent.

Suggestion: Try to change the color of the relationship line to an unused color.
Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 - Post #7464
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well if i were doing that i could think of two ways

one just put a mate and change the link proertys to the most approrate one ( i think there is a unkown or other)

or you could just like the child to the mother directly and leave the unkown mate out of it
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Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 - Post #7465
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I dont think that a single parent is a relationship of any kind. I look at it more as a status. In Legacy I can add any status that I want and I added a single parent as "Marriage Information" to indicate a single parent.

Suggestion: Try to change the color of the relationship line to an unused color.


I ended up doing exactly what you wrote in the suggestion, as well as describe in a text box what is the relationship.

However, I like the fact that there is a single parent concept - as in Legacy. Perhaps this should be an option in GenoPro?


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Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 - Post #7466
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However, I like the fact that there is a single parent concept - as in Legacy. Perhaps this should be an option in GenoPro?

Do you have a suggestion how to implement it? Can you send me a screen shot about what you would like to be done? Thanks.
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Posted Thursday, August 18, 2005 - Post #7467
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A couple of ideas:

1. One of the items in the relationship list will include "Anonymous." Although this may seem contrary to a relationship, but it will also explain one-night-stands leading to children, etc.

2. The relationship with the child will be of a biological child, however, there should be a way of defining artificial insemination - for example, creating a check box for this option in the PEDIGREE LINK properties page. This may grow a bit complicated, as in addition to artificial insemination, we would want to define anonymous donor. This would then be yet another check-box.

3. The link would may physicaly look like a straight line, directly from the mother, with no father appearing, and the typical 2 parents, 1 child look, would instead be a mother, with some form of dotted line, directly to a child.

4. In addition, there may be a dot (similar to a dot for a picture attachment for the individual, or similar to End Of Family dot) for the mother, which will signify child from single parent only.


Danny


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