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July 30, 2015June 26, 2018 K.

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, who was herself an adoptive mother and who also founded an adoption agency. Buck first … Continue reading My Adoptivemother and My Birth Mother

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