A biological or adoptive female parent.
The woman who has parents’ rights and parents’ responsibilities toward a child, especially a minor. The woman whose genetic inheritance contributed directly to the child and who is one of the child’s nearest blood relatives is the child’s biological mother, also called natural mother or birth mother. With some new reproductive techniques, the question of who the biological mother is can be clouded, as when an embryo from one woman’s body is transferred to another woman’s uterus to grow and develop. If the biological mother gives up her rights and allows her child to be placed for adoption, a female who adopts the child is called the adoptive mother.