Response
After many emails being sent out by loads of us women around the world, Teleflora has responded in several ways. Here is the email most of us have received from Teleflora
They have also made many changes on the website. They have still not totally fixed the problem, but it's better than it was before.
Happy Mother's Day to all those of you have are mothers in life, and in your heart!!
Thank you for contacting Teleflora to share your thoughts about the
"Teleflora presents America's Favorite Mom" program.
In response to your concerns, 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.
In closing, all of us at Teleflora would like to offer our sincerest
best wishes to all the many women throughout the world who have
worked so hard and given so much to earn the name "Mom."
Sincerely,
The America's Favorite Mom Team
They have also made many changes on the website. They have still not totally fixed the problem, but it's better than it was before.
Happy Mother's Day to all those of you have are mothers in life, and in your heart!!

1 Comments:
Wow - that's crazy. I'm so glad you and so many others spoke up. "non-mom ... what's that??"
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