"With the growth of open adoption, birth families and adoptive families tend to stay in contact for the benefit of a child. Placing a child for adoption has come to be considered an act of love. (Emphasis added)But many birth mothers felt they continued to be ignored. In 1990, a group of Seattle birth mothers sought to change that by creating a day of their own....
Personally, I'd like to know more about those birth mothers in Seattle and how they concocted this lamebrained idea. I did see that Spence-Chapin did not have their annual birth mother's luncheon this year. Good for them! 
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