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Positive Adoption Language Positive language Negative language ** Birthparent Real parent
** Biological parent Natural parent
** Birth child Own child
** My child Adopted child; Own child
** Was adopted Is adopted
** Born to unmarried parents Illegitimate
** Terminate parental rights Give up
** Make an adoption plan or
Place a child for adoption Give away, give up ** To parent To keep
** Waiting child Adoptable child; Available child
** Biological mother or father Real mother or father
** Making contact with Reunion
** Parent Adoptive parent
** International adoption Foreign adoption
** Adoption triad Adoption triangle
** Permission to sign a release Disclosure
** Search Track down parents
** Child placed for adoption An unwanted child
** Court termination Child taken away
** Child with special needs Handicapped child
** Child from abroad Foreign child
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