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The
term "birthmother" is
used on this website for search engine purposes only. The word
"birth mother" is a derogatory, degrading, and inhumane
term, essentially meaning breeder
or incubator. Origins Canada does NOT condone its use as
a term for mothers separated from their children by adoption.
"Natural
mother" was the term commonly in use until the adoption industry
created terms like "birth mother" to tell us that we are
no longer mothers. Natural mothers are more than this. We never
signed away our love or our innate motherhood.
Words
like "birth mother"
give the impression that people can become "ex" family.
You can have an ex-boyfriend, but you can never have an ex-child
or become an ex-mother.
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