The whole thing is asinine.  Makes me love that bumpersticker that says "Shoot your television."  Who watches this BS?  And if some of us do watch some of it by mistake, I'm hoping we are smart enough to know right away that it's idiotic.  I feel sad for people who take this shit seriously.  (Though I do agree that it is offensive for anyone - even the lobotomized mass media - to refer to adoptive parents as non moms.  Even the smartest, most well adjusted MOM would likely bristle at such a reference.)

Hah! Oh, Marie. Go cuddle one of your dolls that you so lovingly hawk on QVC.

I think it doesn't matter whether any of the "smart" folks are watching programs and items like these - lots of people see it, whether or not by "mistake" and regardless of their intellect.   There's a lot of anti-adoption prejudice, and I think this can be a good public forum for demonstrating that and taking it on - maybe causing a lot of folks to think about it.  And, FWIW, this idiocy doesn't only insult adoptive moms, it insults their children as well. My mom is every bit as much my mom as anyone else's, who pushed them out of their bodies.  She had to work hard to get me, before she worked hard to raise me. And to single her, and others like her, out as being different from the 'real' moms is just plain wrong.

Well said, leahsmom. I never understood those who think that conceiving and bearing a child is an intellectual achievement.

Oh please, like we expected these people to have a brain.  Until you've either been a parent who adopts or an adoptee, you don't get it.  After being asked for the gazillionth time if I wanted to find "my real parents" I started telling people "I don't need to find them, I live with them."  

Giving birth doesn't make a mother.  My mom told me that practically anyone can have a baby, not everyone can be a mother.  And I completely agree.

Right on Sheri!  I have adopted and given birth.  Same feelings for both.  They are my children and I am the only mother either has ever had.  

ITA with Leahs Mom and Sheri.  As an adoptee I find this insulting.  My birth mother is still in my life and deludes herself daily into thinking that I would have rather been raised by her.  Totally off base on her part.  My "real" parents have always been the ones who adopted me.  I would have never thought they should be placed in another category of parents.  Ridiculous.

I got my hackles up pretty quickly over the non-mom thing. I saw it a few days before Mother's Day and I was missing my "non-mom" - she passed away a few years ago. I will not patronize any of the sponsors.

I later read that the woman who won the altered Adopting Mom category has never adopted any children! I can't believe adoption is still such a mystery to the general public with so much information available now.