All Adoptions Aren’t ‘Fall Back’ Options

It’s disrespectful to believe adoptees are ‘second best.’

A.J. Bryant
3 min readApr 26

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Image by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

When people know I’m adopted they inevitably say, “Have you met your real parents?” But what annoys me more, is their query; “Were you adopted because your parents couldn’t have children of their own?”

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A.J. Bryant

Adopted from Kerala. I write about adoption, my intercultural marriage, and contemporary India. Prawns are my love language. @adoptedkeralite