Single name or nickname as dominant alias for a contact

In Address Book, when I tried changing the name on my parents' contact cards from "firstname lastname" to "Dad" and "Mom", I found that Address Book (and Mail) refused to accept a contact who had a firstname (i.e. Dad) but no last name. It would fill in the last name automatically, reverting to my family name (which is what was there before I edited the contact card). This leads to the ridiculous situation of the contact being named "Dad lastname."
This was true even after I deleted the contact card and created a whole new one just with first name "Dad." This behaviour is aggravating. I don't want to type "firstname lastname" into the To field of an email to my parents. I want to type "Dad" or "Mom." Also, I don't want iCal to list my parents' birthdays as "firstname lastname's Birthday." I want it to call it "Dad's Birthday" etc. This seems simple enough. My workaround has been to put their full names back into the contact card, and introduce "Dad" and "Mom" as nicknames. This is not ideal because it means
1. iCal still uses their FULL NAMES on the birthdays calendar (not that I would forget my parents' birthdays without a calendar...but that's beside the point).
2. To type a message to Dad in Mail, I have to type "Dad" in the TO field WITH THE QUOTES.
What can I do?

By the way, "firstname" and "lastname" in my previous post are placeholders for my parents' given names and our family name, which I didn't want to post on the internet. Then I realized that my username is currently my full name, so it's too late...you guys can already see my family name. Therefore, for clarity here is the problem without placeholders:
The problem is that if I change the contact card from having my Dad's full name to just "Dad", Address Book automatically turns this into "Dad Shariff."

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