tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post6795437947257874284..comments2024-02-27T00:41:15.985-06:00Comments on AdoptionTalk: I Read It So You Don't Have Tomalindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06233439015219192874noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-60308100856619239602009-04-01T18:59:00.000-05:002009-04-01T18:59:00.000-05:00Welcome, Ava! I'm glad you're considering ways to...Welcome, Ava! I'm glad you're considering ways to make OwlCat more adoption-friendly.<BR/><BR/>Birth parent is the most common way of referring to the parents an adopted child is born to, but biological parents or natural parents are sometimes used. Frankly, there's some amount of controversy about each of these usages, but just about ANYTHING is better than REAL parents!<BR/><BR/>Here's a link to positive adoption language that might be helpful:<BR/><BR/>http://www.adoptivefamilies.com/pdf/PositiveLanguage.pdf<BR/><BR/>You'll find lots of info with a search for "positive adoption language."malindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06233439015219192874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-24118214131939917152009-04-01T15:33:00.000-05:002009-04-01T15:33:00.000-05:00Hello from the author of OWLCAT.Avelea Nixon Broad...Hello from the author of OWLCAT.<BR/>Avelea Nixon Broadhurst. Well this is quite the web site. It's nice that you have a group of people to talk to. I can see that you are passionate about your beliefs.<BR/><BR/>So, lets talk about the real parents part. What if I had used the word BIOLOGICAL????<BR/><BR/>ANBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-43849043646591411672009-03-27T21:18:00.000-05:002009-03-27T21:18:00.000-05:00I used to like to book, "Stellaluna" until we beca...I used to like to book, "Stellaluna" until we became an adoptive family...its not as heavy handed but there is still an undercurrent of rigidity and not belonging that I don't like...Ann BFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09247000615024824490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-316191265933534655.post-67464039032886143892009-03-27T19:19:00.000-05:002009-03-27T19:19:00.000-05:00Wow, Melissa! OwlCat sounds positively awful, wha...Wow, Melissa! OwlCat sounds positively awful, what with the "not my real parents" language. Thanks for taking one for the team and reading it so we don't have to.Deenoreply@blogger.com