That's a worrying wording and I think it's part of a trend | Letter

The above article contains the line: "Parents aged 40 and over more commonly delivered via caesarean sections."

I am concerned that the wording should be "mothers", not "parents".

It makes it sound that women are not actually essential to the act of birth and women are being whitewashed into a haze of gender neutrality.

This seems to be part of a very concerning trend removing the words of "female" and "women" from our everyday conversation.