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Historically, behavioral expectations correlate with reproductive organs/instrumentation (cisgender).  But what if folks were to identify, alternatively, with characteristics centered about the kind of parent they are, and then further supplement with one’s contribution to any parenting partnership formed ---in keeping with the reproductive-specific utility of these body parts?  If asked to identify as such, what would those characterizations be?   And so, we surveyed for as much. Survey design We surveyed for answers to the following four questions:  •    One, are you a parent?   •    Two, what words best describe your particular approach to/manner/way of/method/technique/practice/style of parenting?   •    Three, do you have a partner that you parent with?  •    Followed by, four, what words best describe your role in/contribution to said partnership? Agent contracted with an on-line surveyor, OwnSurvey, for execution.   OwnSurvey was chosen largely for convenience and cost.    Whereas OwnSurvey’s respondents are random, OwnSurvey does not randomly select them; the respondents find OwnSurvey; and so, cumulatively may not result in formal representation, and as such limits findings.  Author wrote the survey questions.  In retrospect, respondents ought to have been respectfully dismissed from the survey upon answering no to question one. This shortcoming further limited findings.  Findings & Data Availability Statement The findings have been published on the following link.  https://www.ownsurvey.com/take-a-survey.php?questionnaire=E9CZJX5L4UUJok3 Our limited findings are three fold:   •    one, a plurality of respondents are inadequately articulating how they practice parenting.   •    two, we experienced an alarming number of respondents whose agendas (e.g. humor, sabotage) run counter to/a foul of the express objective of survey ---some disturbingly so;  •    and three, the data doesn’t lend itself to binary classification.  Discussion/Inspiration Author postulates that identifying as a parent is productive:   one, for parents being inclusive of both men and women,  two, there being a plurality of women that soar in this capacity,  three, for the opportunity for learning,  four, for leadership abounding,  five, for the related opportunity to clarify the transferability of these skills to other spheres in life, notably including commerce,  and six, for better child rearing partners and related partnership outcomes, and, for these (seven), emotionally healthier offspring.