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View synonyms for birth mother

birth mother

noun

  1. the woman who gives birth to a child, regardless of whether she is the genetic mother or subsequently brings up the child

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The petitioners argued that the current legislation unfairly discriminated against parents who were not the birth mother - specifically, fathers, adoptive parents, and parents of children born to surrogates - by granting them only 10 days of parental leave, while the birth mother received four months.

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In Alabama, a birth mother has just five days to change her mind.

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If adoption really is a win-win—if it is a practice that’s overwhelmingly entered into with the full and free consent of birth mothers—then why does the adoption industry so regularly push to shorten the window within which a birth mother can change her mind?

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That conservative and anti-abortion groups are the ones typically pushing against greater regulation of adoption and for things like shortening the amount of time a birth mother has to change her mind about severing her parental rights?

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It was around the same time that PJ’s foster mother implored a local social worker to help him find his birth mother.

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