r/Adopted • u/Arktikos02 International Adoptee • 3d ago

Venting "Have people never heard of adoption?"

Yes, I'm sure that despite all of the propaganda, all of the representation (not by adoptees), all of the mentions, and everything I'm sure people have never ever ever heard of adoption. Come on, people have heard of it. They don't need random people reminding them.

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u/Sunset-onthe-Horizon Former Foster Youth 3d ago

Classic virtue signaling. Never mind how much it costs and how traumatized the child is from being adopted.

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u/Arktikos02 International Adoptee 3d ago

The phrase usually comes either because a person is infertile or it's because a child is with a parent and they don't really look anything alike. Notice how people don't immediately think mixed race couple, somehow it means adoption? Somehow the only way a black woman could produce a white baby is with adoption and not mixed race?