Non-Mom Update

As you can see from the comments on my previous post, after a deluge of angry blog posts, e-mails and calls from the other adoptive moms out there, the sponsors of the "America's Favorite Mom" contest apologized and changed the category name to adopting moms. Which makes it slightly better.

My problem with the new wording? We should never have been singled out in the first place. Adoption is just a means of creating families...but once that family is created, it's no different than any other family out there. Adoptive moms should have been nominated in the other categories--we're working moms and "CEO" moms, military moms and single moms.

We're just like all you other moms out there, worrying about whether our kids are eating enough vegetables, jostling for the front row at the school performances, kissing and bandaging the tiniest boo-boos. We may have social workers instead of stretch marks, but underneath it all, we're the same.

And we're tired of being portrayed otherwise by the unenlightened.

Comments

[ELSNY]

Fabulous response. I was speechless over the whole non-mom thing. Even my husband (who usually thinks I am oversensitive about these things) was aghast, for several hours I heard him mumbling about 'those idiots'.

I bet Telaflora lost a bunch of customers with this one.

Loved the SW instead of stretch marks comment.

Happy Mother's Day.