Origins Canada

Origins Canada:
Supporting People Separated By Adoption

Support for natural mothers, adoptees, and other affected family members.


Feature Articles:
	Why "Birthmother" Means "Breeder"
	Biased Adoption Language
	A Call to Natural Mothers
	Were You Coerced?
	Adoption - "Not by Choice"
	Our Stories: Across Canada
	What They Knew and Didn't Tell Us
	Stillborn or Stolen??
	Adoptees Speak Out
	Search & Reunion Registry
	"The Open Adoption Experiment"
	Open Adoption? Modern-Day Coercion
	Infant adoption: Big Business

About Origins Canada:
	Aims&Objectives
	Contacts and Support Groups
	FAQ
	What is Origins?
	Joining Origins Canada
	Members Message Board
	The NSW Parliamentary Inquiry
	Contact Origins
	Sitemap

Origins International:
	International forum
	New South Wales
	Press Release: The Other Stolen Generation - National Inquiry
	Queensland
	Victoria State
	The Baby Scoop Era™ Research Initiative.

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.

Please Help Us Reunite Families!

Even though we're not a registered charity yet, your donation can help a long way towards helping our ongoing efforts to reunite families who have been involuntarily separated by adoption and to educate people about such separation.

Your donation will help today towards long-distance phonecalls to try to find family members, advertisements in community newspapers, letters mailed on behalf of searching relatives, and keeping this website active.

There are two ways you can donate: via Paypal

or you can send a cheque or money order to:
Origins British Columbia
Box 53534, Broadmead RPO
Victoria BC V8X 5K2
Canada

Join Our Mothers Support and Action Group and Support for Mothers and Adoptees Group