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I just read all about this and was disgusted. I had to write to NBC and Teleflora. Here is my email.
America's Favorite Mom (Please, just call me Mom.)
I recently read about your special titled America's Favorite Mom that is to air Sunday evening. I was horrified to learn you had dared to label mothers who had adopted their children as "non-moms." This is so unbelievably insensitive, ignorant, and cruel. Last spring my husband and I adopted two beautiful children from Guatemala after many years of infertility. We did not care how children came us, only that we would one day have children of our own. We braved months of scrutiny by home study and adoption agencies, local governments, state governments, the federal government, and a foreign government in order to welcome our precious son and daughter into our lives. I even lived with my children for some months in Guatemala so I could build a bond with them sooner. I find it so completely offensive that anyone would try to diminish that bond by using such irresponsible and hurtful language. I know you recently tried to correct this "error" by relabeling the category as "adopting mom," but truly that is no better than the original term. It still implies that mothers who adopted their children do not measure up to those with a biological connection. The words adopt, adopting, and adopted are verbs to used for an action, not adjectives for people involved in the action. I am not a non-mom or an adopting mom, I am simply a mom. I do not have adopted children, I simply have children. Yes I did adopt them a year ago, but that is an action that happened and is now over, and has little to do with our daily lives. In future, I suggest you simply honor mothers and not worry so much about how they came to be mothers, as that is the most unimportant detail.
Heather *, proud mother to McKinley and Kate
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