True, we're talking semantics... mostly... but...

Subs have a choice in the matter. Children don't. Ignore all else and that alone disqualifies it as dom-sub... obviously that's my opinion but it's a strong one I maintain.

You can even go back to the days of true chattel slavery, especially slavery in ancient times, and the manner (as observed from writings and 'histories' of those eras,) and the manner in which children are treated v. slaves, even the manner in which children are taught to interact with adults v. slaves, belies, again my opinion, this notion that there is anything more than a superficial similarity between dom-sub and parent-child.

And I will reiterate, that parents who think of this as any kind of social pecking order rather than a parent-child relationship will ultimately fail their children when they begin to need to rely on themselves... AND have a place to fall back on when they make mistakes.

"My way or the highway" parents all too often create offspring with passive-agressive behavior or "lose" there children as they enter their teens, sometimes to the real highway, and often to the mental highway.