Last chance to vote for your favorite mom

Priscilla Gilbert France

As a mother to two girls brought into my life through adoption, I am deeply offended by your categorical description of adopting mothers as “Non-Moms”. Even more so, I am deeply offended that you separate out mothers who have adopted at all. I understand that you have changed your description to read “Adopting Moms” but I still find that offensive. Yes, my husband and I adopted our girls. Note I said adopt-ED. Past tense. An act that occurred some time ago. Adopt should not be an adjective. It disturbs me that you think that women who adopted their children are somehow different from women who give birth to their children. In your description of one of the nominees in this category, you describe her as “now mom to her own daughter, plus six adopted children who started life as "meth babies"”. Why are you drawing a distinction between her children? I do not know the mother that you describe, but I feel quite confident that she does not think of her children as “the one that is her own, and her adopted meth babies”. No mother would distinguish among her children that way. Children are one’s OWN children, no matter how they come into a family.



Instead of celebrating motherhood, you have offended mothers everywhere and this mother in particular.

I will no longer be a Teleflora customer, a Today show watcher, or a supporter of your other sponsors. You have implied, and in fact clearly stated, that I am not a “real” mother because I adopted my children. Your ignorance angers and upsets me.

Adoptive mothers are not different or special, and the fact that they were adopted does not make children different or special. Shame on you for saying it is so.

Marcia Swanson

I'd love to vote for my favorite mom, but according to the show I am a "non mom". The 7 years I spent raising, loving, teaching, and caring for three children don't count because they were ADOPTED. All those nights I sat up with sick kids, typed up homework for tired kids, and put together Christmas bicycles for excited kids were just "nothing"? Because I am a "nothing mom"?
I will tell all three of my non-children the same thing: DON'T SEND ME FLOWERS FOR MOTHER'S DAY BECAUSE I AM NOTHING TO YOUR COMPANY.

B McCabe

Dear Jacqueline and Teleflora.
Is this a typo? 'Non-mom' I am really hoping it is because otherwise you and your organising committee have shown such ignorance in categorising your competition the way you did.
I am an adoptive Mom, My mother is a grandmother but still a mother. My child's foster mother is a mother. Please stop your stereotyping and get real.
I would also like to point out that your marketing ploy has backfired seriously. There may be fewer adoptive mothers in the US but those adoptive mothers have mothers, sisters, aunts, cousins and friends and who do you think they will support?
I am Irish so unfortunately my boycotting of your services and this 'SHOW(of contempt)' will not be felt, but what you have said and done is being noticed the world over.
Please make amends to all those you have offended in an urgent and sincere manner.
Bernie McCabe

Melody

I must say that as a mother of 2 children that I have been blessed by birth and 1 child that I have been blessed by adoption that I have been upset by the classification of first "Non-Mom" and then the being seen as a "separate" into Adoptive mom category. Although I did not give birth to one of my children, I do not feel any different in amount of love I have for her and do not give her any differnt care than I did for the children that I did give birth too.

I feel that there was extremely poor handling in this case and I will definatly not be using your company to send flowers to the mothers in my life regardless of how they became mothers.