There always seems to be a current blog post or thread on an adoption forum highlighting the fact that media or someone else highlighted the child is the adopted child vs just child and why do they always need to point that out. That the media needs to stop defining the celebrity’s children as either biological or adopted. Couple that with the ongoing never ending debates over whether adoption is an event and therefore you were adopted and why it is important not to use you are adopted - because being adopted does not define an individual.
Often I see the two points above combined into one post or thread…
So if you agree with the point that the two subjects seem to intertwine in people’s mind - highlighting the adopted status and why people think it is wrong because they were adopted vs they are adopted and adoption does not define them. Can you please explain why it seems like every single adoption agency, many adoptive parent blogs, adoption forums alway seem to have a Famous Adoptees list pointing out that they are adopted and everyone goes gaga each time they find out so and so is a Famous Adoptee…
Because if you truly believe and use PAL (positive adoption language) and that an adoptee was adopted and being adopted does not define them, and their adopted status should not be referenced - then you would not highlight or go gaga over that FAMOUS ADOPTEE…because they were adopted and not are adopted and being adopted means nothing…
Or did the reality that you can’t have things both ways change?
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Ps…whether or not the media over-does the adopted children thing is not the point of the post…
