Category: Mothers
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My Adoptivemother and My Birth Mother
No, there is no error in the title of this post. Use of the term “birth mother” to mean a woman who has relinquished a child to adoption can be traced back to Pulitzer Prize winning author Pearl S. Buck,…
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When Adoptees and Birth Mothers Clash
My pain trumps yours. That’s what it feels like when an adoptee hears a birth mother say she can’t be honest because it hurts her too much, that she can’t talk about it because it hurts her too much, that she can’t…
Karen Pickell: Between 