This is a group for all mothers separated from their children by adoption, especially mothers who surrendered their newborns.

We all know that we may have signed away our right to raise our child (often under coercion and duress) but we did not sign away our motherhood, or our love for and... MORE

This is a group for all mothers separated from their children by adoption, especially mothers who surrendered their newborns.

We all know that we may have signed away our right to raise our child (often under coercion and duress) but we did not sign away our motherhood, or our love for and bond with our child.

This is a support, resource, education, and information group, not a place to debate the pros and cons of adoption, nor to promote adoption. For many members, adoption has likely been a significant trauma in their lives, as traumatic and violent an experience as rape. Messages that get into debates, or try to incite arguments, will be removed.

Please use respectful terminology such as mothers, natural mothers, first mothers, or exiled mothers -- "Birth-terms" (birthmother, etc.) were coined by social workers in order to diminish us to being non-mothers after the birth of our chldren. We ourselves know the Truth: we still love our children and have a mothering bond and connection to them, even if we are separated from them. In this group, you will be respected as being a mother.