An Australian woman has appealed to the courts to prevent her six-year-old daughter from calling her step-mother “mummy”. In an unusual case, the mother, who cannot be named, had asked the Adelaide Family Court to issue an order against her ex-husband encouraging their child to refer to his new wife as “Mummy D”. The woman claimed that encouraging the girl to use the term was “an incendiary action” by the couple, even though it was followed by the initial of the stepmother’s first name. However, she lost her case and the court ruled that it did not undermine the natural mother’s role.
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