{"id":1289,"date":"2011-11-15T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2011-11-15T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T21:23:09","slug":"the-huffington-post-adoption-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/15\/the-huffington-post-adoption-essay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Huffington Post Adoption Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"kids\" src=\"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/mom and kids color.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"305\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(c) La Luz Photography<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Too Many Real Moms<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago I heard an interview on NPR with Nancy L Segal, the author of \u201cSomeone Else\u2019s twin: The True Story of Babies Switched at Birth.\u201d The book told the tale of three babies and what happened when one singleton newborn was accidently switched with an identical twin. The \u201ctwins\u201d were raised as fraternal and no one knew about the mix-up until they were adults.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a complicated story and in the interview there was a lot of discussion of the various parents of these three girls and how they felt. The interviewer, I presume in an effort to simplify things, used the term \u201creal\u201d mother or \u201creal\u201d parents on several occasions to indicate the biological parent of the child.<\/p>\n<p>If the biological parent is the \u201creal\u201d parent then what is the term for the parent who raised the child? The parent-in-practice? Parent-in-life? Bed-sheet-changer? At some point, it seems like 18+ years of lunch-packing should earn a parent the title of \u201creal,\u201d no?<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read the rest of the essay in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/katherine-malmo\/too-many-real-moms_b_1095006.html?ref=parents\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too Many Real Moms A few months ago I heard an interview on NPR with Nancy L Segal, the author of \u201cSomeone Else\u2019s twin: The True Story of Babies Switched at Birth.\u201d The book told the tale of three babies and what happened when one singleton newborn was accidently switched with an identical twin. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,24,12,13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-mom","category-little-k","category-parenting","category-popular","category-who-in-this-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}