For America's Favorite Mom contest sponsored by Teleflora and NBC's Today Show, they catagorized mothers that adopted as non-moms. In order to keep myself from boarding a plane and showing them what it feels like when a Real-Mom (that just happened to have adopted) physically attacks them, I'm going to assume the front desk security guard approved the copy because everyone at Teleflora and NBC were out building houses for Habitat for Humanity.
Here is their sincere apology.
Teleflora is immediately changing the name of our "Non-Mom" category to "Adopting Moms". After closer examination, we can see how this may have been offensive to moms who have adopted children -- moms who are indeed real moms to their children in every sense of the word. In fact, many of us at Teleflora are “adopting” parents ourselves, including our president and owner. The essence of this category still focuses on a grandparent, neighbor, step mom, or mom to adopted or foster children, each one raising and loving a child. This show of insensitivity on our part was in no way intended and we deeply apologize for any concern or distress we may have caused. It was always our intent to salute and celebrate all moms.
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are they kidding when they say "this may have been offensive [do you think???!!] to moms who have adopted children - moms who are real moms to their children in every sense of the word."??? i believe they are real moms not only to "their children" but to themselves, their families, their friends, their communities. i'm boycotting teleflora!
If I were you, I'd follow my first instinct to board a plane and attack them physically, apology or not. Why do we have to categorize moms at all? A mom is a mom. Plain and simple. They need their heads examined!
I'm...trying to formulate some kind of response to this. It makes me angry, but not regular angry. Maybe we could classify it as...non-angry?
And really, who okayed that one? I would think a security guard would have more common sense than that. Probably some idiot closer to the top. And then to say "Oops, our bad! That may have been offensive." Yes. It may have been. And rain just may be wet. And Laurie, you just may be a mom. And by that, of course, I mean, happy Mother's Day (a day late). You deserve it just as much as anyone.
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