From
using positive adoption language to understanding the rights of everyone involved, birth and adoptive families benefit when hospital social workers, nurses and other staff are prepared for working in adoption.
During the time before we had much of a voice - when we were still shamed into silence - the «
positive adoption language» people moved in for the kill and stole what rightfully belongs to us and every other woman who has given birth: the titles of «mother,» «mom,» «natural mother,» and «real mother.»
Positive adoption language is a way to convey respect for birthparents and adoptive parents during the adoption process.
Although many organizations, social workers and authors have complied lists and charts like this one of
positive adoption language, they should be used as a guide and not a rule book.