[vegaschristina]

I guess my issue with the birthmom/natural mom/biological mom thing comes from a different perspective...of a foster adoptive mom.

My kids' birthmom did not make a loving decision to place. She did not make a loving environment for the 9 months of gestation, and she did not choose a family to give her children the things she could not. Instead, she choose to do drugs and provide an unfit environment for them such that she had her rights terminated for her oldest and only relinquished rights on the younger 2 when she was in court for the TPR trial.

She is genetically 1/2 of my kids, and she did give them birth so biological or birth mother fits, but there is a huge difference between a mother and a mom. I am a mom, she is a biological mother or a birth mother. IMHO, mom is a title that has to be earned, and not by simply being able to procreate.