Associations and Gender

Chuck,

I did a quick survey around the building.  And no one really cared about the Gender of the relationships.

--Tom

It would be great to have some feedback on the use of gender in association links between individual constituents.  If you're familiar with the way associations work now, you may know that there is fairly elaborate code there to try to figure out the gender of both sides of the association and map the association types appropriately. 

Is this necessary, really?  Wouldn't Parent/Child or Sibling/Sibling work as well as Mother/Daughter, Father/Daughter, Mother/Son, Mother/Daughter and Sister/Brother, Sister/Sister, Brother/Sister, Brother/Brother?  Yes it gets a little tricky when you get into Uncles and Aunts, but maybe you just call that something like AuntUncle/NieceNephew.  Interestingly Facebook has worked hard to keep all their relationship modeling gender neutral.

Thoughts are always welcome!

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Chuck,

I did a quick survey around the building.  And no one really cared about the Gender of the relationships.

--Tom

It would be great to have some feedback on the use of gender in association links between individual constituents.  If you're familiar with the way associations work now, you may know that there is fairly elaborate code there to try to figure out the gender of both sides of the association and map the association types appropriately. 

Is this necessary, really?  Wouldn't Parent/Child or Sibling/Sibling work as well as Mother/Daughter, Father/Daughter, Mother/Son, Mother/Daughter and Sister/Brother, Sister/Sister, Brother/Sister, Brother/Brother?  Yes it gets a little tricky when you get into Uncles and Aunts, but maybe you just call that something like AuntUncle/NieceNephew.  Interestingly Facebook has worked hard to keep all their relationship modeling gender neutral.

Thoughts are always welcome!

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