None of the Above.

It took five attempts for one prospective college student and her mother to fill out the 106-question federal form that would determine whether she would be eligible for financial aid. And that was not just because the form was frustratingly complicated. What tripped them up was the fact that the student had two legal mothers -- and the form had room for only one. Further confusing matters, her mothers had since split and married other women; they have six children among them. ''It was so stressful and so frustrating to try to fit our family into those forms when so clearly it wasn't going to fit,'' said the student, who is now a senior at a university in Illinois and wanted to remain anonymous to keep her family's financial affairs private. ''You feel like you are lying no matter what you do.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]