ABSTRACT
Parents of Twins Clubs, or their more recent counterpart, Parents of Multiples Clubs (POMCs), are not a new concept. In the early 1970s, prior to the growth of political correctness, these parental support groups were called ‘Mothers of Twins Clubs’, as highorder multiple births were still quite rare, and the vast majority of multiple births were governed by nature and calculated by the now obsolete Hellin’s Law. Eventually, Mothers of Twins Clubs were supplanted by Parents of Twins Clubs in the name of gender equality, which in turn were succeeded by Parents of Multiples Clubs when the explosion of high-order multiple births stole the limelight from the once rare twin sets. No matter the name, the purpose and format are almost identical.
