[Karen&Michael]

I just received this email today about the NON-Mom title.

Marie posted this statement on her website:

Monday, May 12, 2008

To all my friends, fans and viewers of America’s Favorite Mom, I would like to take this opportunity to address the emails I received this past weekend about America’s Favorite Mom.
I have read your thoughts concerning the “Non-Mom Mom” category as it appeared on the Today Show and in other promotions before the special was taped and televised.

Please understand that as an adoptive mother myself; I totally understand why this category concerned you. I would never address any of us women who love and raise our children as a “Non-Mom Mom.” When Donny and I arrived at rehearsals for the show, we came to understand that the category now included women who had adopted or who had taken in children to raise as their own. Though the Today Show segments had already aired as “Non-Mom Mom’s,” Donny and I were both 100 percent in favor of changing the name of the category for the actual show, no matter what, and the producers agreed. At one point I suggested “Non-Stop Moms,” because I know that when a woman feels that inspiration to parent a child absolutely nothing can stop her. The final, agreed upon choice, was “Adopting Moms.”

Donny and I both consider motherhood as the most important job in the world. Thank you so much for expressing your concerns. It’s always appreciated.

Marie Osmond