Why does media news and news articles point out......?

**Possum** · 09-17-2009, 11:40 AM

It is very sad.
I also hate recently how Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman - now split - talk about having their 'own' children - I feel very very sad for their children they adopted when they were still married.

I had a cousin who insisted on always introducing me as the 'adopted one'.
It hurt like hell.
I felt like I was always being put into my 'place' - as a less-than person than all other family members.
Luckily my a-mum and sibs never did the same - they loved me for me - it didn't matter how I came into the family.

**Possum** · 09-17-2009, 11:40 AM

It is very sad.
I also hate recently how Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman - now split - talk about having their 'own' children - I feel very very sad for their children they adopted when they were still married.

I had a cousin who insisted on always introducing me as the 'adopted one'.
It hurt like hell.
I felt like I was always being put into my 'place' - as a less-than person than all other family members.
Luckily my a-mum and sibs never did the same - they loved me for me - it didn't matter how I came into the family.

**Cam** · 09-17-2009, 11:40 AM

I've known other adoptive parents who have had their child introduced by someone else as their "adopted son". In front of the child! The insensitivity of some people.

Do bio parents introduce their children as "my biological child"? No.

I once had an experience in my daughter's doctor office that will make your head spin. Maybe I'll tell it someday.

**Kym M** · 09-17-2009, 11:40 AM

Who knows why they say that. I have not seen or heard that in my local news or any news for that matter before. But it is wrong.

**Kym M** · 09-17-2009, 11:40 AM

Who knows why they say that. I have not seen or heard that in my local news or any news for that matter before. But it is wrong.

**LaurieDB** · 09-17-2009, 11:40 AM

So that 'Sophisticated Liberal' can know whether or not to consider it a tragedy.

**kaluah96** · 09-17-2009, 11:45 AM

i don't know but there is a preconcieved assumption that all adoptive parents are great and i think they did it in thi scase to make people even more sympethetic to him.

when an adoptee commits a crime, they say it so that the a parents don't have to claim it. that kid killed like 20 people but it's not his parents fault they just didn't know what they were getting into type of thing.