Discrimination Against Adoption

Discrimination Against Adoption
What Most of Us Don't Know


First we will like to thank you, the public, for posting interesting comments on your story. Due to the many comments about adoption that we heard from you, we will like to spread awareness about the discrimination behind adoption. 


Most of us don't really know about adoption. Some of us even sympathize on adopted kids. But is there really something to sympathize about?

Family is family, adopted or not.

An adopted individual posted a comment on our page, disliking it when people perceive that "being adopted means that you're less loved." Most of us view family as a group of individuals with similar physical traits, but indeed, there can be a family with two completely different races. The same individual said that "[it] is a form of discrimination [to] how their recognition of being different from other families." So remember, it is discrimination to perceive a group as less fortunate just because of their different races.

A parent of an adopted child gives us their point of view of adoption. This parent tries to teach her child "to know #1, she should be proud of her heritage, and that #2, an adoptive family is in no way inferior to a biological one, just different." He/she emphasizes on the child's culture and the beauty of being different, which we found important to show to the public. It is not inferiority to have a different cultural background than your parents, but yes, different.

When another comment said that "this discrimination is borne out of ignorance because it is outside the experience of most people," we knew that we had to do something. We figured that not all of us can experience the feelings of adopted kids, but all of us can be aware of them. 

We hope that this post will spread awareness of the discrimination against adoption.

Thank you for all of you who let your voice be heard.

Please post a comment on this post and tell us your story of discrimination as well.