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Originally Posted by Metzican
Very interesting episode. There was one thing that annoyed me. Many of my friends with step parents from young age all have told me. The person that raised you is your "mother" or "father" not the person who enjoyed the sex.
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Hi Metzican. I agree that the people doing the raising are the "parents." But, birth mothers are mothers too. Leo's parents happen to both be male, so there's no one else vying with me for the title of "mother," which makes things mercifully simple. In other situations, where there is both an adoptive mother and a birth mother, the woman who, as you say, "enjoyed the sex" (and I think we can all agree there's a bit more to it than that, yes?) is called the birth mother.
I still plan to celebrate the shit out of Mother's Day. Possibly by crying a big puddle.