I am sick of reading news accounts that make a point of
saying someone is an adopted son or daughter of so and so. This is coming up
again in the recent news accounts of the
feud between Michael (right) and Ron Reagan Jr(left). Every single news accounts makes it
a point to say that Michael is the adopted son as if to infer he is less of a son
than Ron Jr.
This piece of information adds nothing to the point of the
story and the inference that being
adopted makes you less of a child than one born biologically services to stigmatize adoption.
The news media should use their
platform appropriately and not continue to this message. Adoption is an event and not a lifelong label.
One mother of three children voiced it
this way; whether they arrived by Delta
or the delivery room they are all my children.
