"Positive Adoption Language" is Biased Against Parents

"The way we talk, and the words we choose say a lot about what we think and value."-- thus states an article on the web about language that is biased or "positive" toward adoption. Not surprisingly, the $1.4 billion adoption industry values adoption.

Positive (Biased) Adoption Language Guidelines

Guidelines for "positive adoption language" have been provided to journalists by the adoption industry. Notice how often news reports refer to mothers and fathers as "birth mothers" and "birth fathers" even before their child is born as if they deserve no respect or consideration as the parents of their own child. (At least the media uses two separate words "birth" and "mother" and does not go that one step futher and cram them into one word "birthmother" like the adoption industry does.)

Meanwhile, prospective adopters are always referred to as "parents" or "adoptive parents" as if they were legally the parents of a child they have never met and are completely unrelated to.

According to the adoption agencies and adoption attroneys, everyone deserves a child - that is they believe everyone who can pay for a child deserves a child. Everyone who is chosen by a social worker "God" deserves a child. But they have to use the real mothers and fathers to get babies to sell or redistribute to those who "deserve a child". Thus "positive adoption language" comes into play, making it appear that natural parents do not have any right to their own child.

Positive Adoption Language?

It's almost amusing and definitely appalling - the way people speak of "the birthmother" or "our birthmother".

They don't even say "Jason's birthmother" or "the baby's birthmother". It's like a baby comes out of a "birthmother" like a pizza comes out of an oven - the oven really is not related to the pizza! The oven is just the device used to process the pizza. The "birthmother" is just a device, an object. A single mother is called a "birthmother", designating her as a target to be used as the source of a baby for adoption.

Wake up, people! That "thing" you call a "birthmother" is the baby's own mother.

A child's mother is not like "our Bessie", the servant (or slave?) who cooks your meals or cleans your house. It is not a mother's job to provide you a baby. It's time to help the real mothers instead of making them feel hopeless and leaving them prey to the adoption industry.

When it comes to adoption, people are like robots. Automatons. Spewing out all of the propaganda they've been led to believe is true. Never questioning whether it is true or not.

Psychology of Adoption, Quotes

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