birth mother

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.

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

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?

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?

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