Definition of "birthparent" [birthparent]

• A biological parent of an adopted child (noun)

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• "Records were not sealed in Oregon to protect birthparent anonymity, and Oregon law gives adoptive parents documents with identifying information about the birthparent upon request."
• "And an adoptive mother, while sympathetic to her child's need to connect with a birthparent, said the tug of that love felt like an "adulterous" betrayal."
• "Others, through the compromise language of the birthparent disclosure veto, will receive only a false and mutilated government document with the name and address of the parent (s) bureaucratically excised by the Department of Health and Senior Services by order of the birthparent (s)."