LIVING WITHOUT YOUR BIRTH MOTHER

Living Without Your Birth Mother

Living Without Your Birth Mother

Introduction

The birth mother is the most beautiful gift of God. Birth mother plays an vital and integral role in the upbringing and personality of the child. Mother is the source of the life of her unborn child nine months in her womb. The 9 Months, it is the symbiosis between mother and child. The birth is the first separation will allow physical growth. But if the cord is cut off physically, he is not even mentally. From birth, the mother-child relationship is symbiotic and rightly so. To advance, grow again, change will require that the child leaves the relationship that would not allow him to gain his identity.

Discussion

The term birth mother simultaneously acknowledges maternity and denies motherhood. A birth mother is a woman who gives birth to a child she then gives up for adoption. Although she is the biological mother, she will not be the child's mother. In societies that engage in collective mothering and regard raising children as the responsibility of a whole community, a phrase like birth mother may not be necessary (Shengold, 2000). In societies that regard raising children as primarily the responsibility of the biological parents, the term birth mother points to what is widely considered an atypical family situation, although it is more common than popular perception recognizes.

Adoption

In adoption discourse, the phrase birth mother is relatively new, appearing as the rigid secrecy of the older, closed adoption system dissipates and the more inclusive forms of both closed and open adoption systems gain favor. Because more birth mothers now have some contact with the children they give up for adoption, both the official language around adoption procedures and the family networks involved in adoption required new ways to distinguish between the woman who gives ...