"Juno," the warm-hearted comedy about a pregnant teenager who chooses to place her child for adoption, is receiving less-than-warm responses from people in the adoption community. Their primary concern is that movie implies adoption is an easy, only mildly sad decision for the biological mother.

"'[Juno] gives the impression that one can hand a baby off to strangers, have a few tears at the time the baby is born, and then the next day get on with your life as if nothing happened. That is of great, great concern to me,' says Mirah Riben, a board member at Origins-USA, a national organization for birth mothers, or women who place their children for adoption."

Though biological mothers admit that the movie has positive points, they almost unanimously agreed that it oversimplifies the very difficult and often painful process of choosing an adoptive family for your baby. Read more at Sun-Sentinel.com.

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