Mother vs "Real Mother" vs Adoptive Mother
Lately I have seen many news stories that identify the mom as the adoptive mother when it has zero pertinence to the story itself. That bugs me. It wouldn't bother me as much if every other story always identifed parents by HOW they became parents yet it seems the reporters like to throw in the term adoptive as if that makes any difference whatsoever. Occasionally that can provide added details to a story (as in, if speaking of the act of adoption) but usually it means nothing and most times it seems as if it is being used to discount the role of the mom or the bond between mother and child. When will they get it that the mom is the mom. Period . HOW she became the mom doesn't really matter. The other irritating thing is when people ask a mom who became a mom via adoption about her child's "real" parents. Hmmm. Real parents? As opposed to fake ones? As opposed to make believe ones?...
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