[Birth Mother] First Mother Forum

As predictable as Groundhog Day repeating itself is adoptive mothers who go ballistic when referred to as adoptive mothers. "I am the...

Daughter Jane and Lorraine, circa 1992 Regular readers know that I'm moving from a house where my husband and I have lived for 33 y...

I am a mother who gave up my daughter for adoption. I am a mother who relinquished my daughter for adoption. I am a mother who surrendered ...

I stumbled across this reunion story yesterday when I Goggled “Birthmother.” The adoptee, Margaret Harless, is now 54, just two years older...

They call me "biological mother." I hate those words. They make me sound like a baby machine, a conduit, without emotions. They te...

– Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily, 1913 Ah, the power of words. In her December 8 post, Lorraine noted, “By the way, I've seen some new l...

Last week I borrowed a book from the library that wasn't my usual read; I wanted light, and this book, a suspense thriller with Russians...

Double Header Day: Folks, I've twice lost everything I have written and so I'm a little nuts...so as lightening strikes overhead I...

It's hard not to think about language when writing about adoption from our vantage point --because it feels as if we are assaulted const...