For some reason, many people across the world seem to consider children who were adopted to be somewhat… lesser, than their siblings who were born into the family. But this idea is a terrible concept, especially when considering the feelings of the children in question. Michelle Brandstetter with SheKnows is sharing her thoughts on the subject, and it’s nice to see such a compassionate response.

I don’t mind these reactions themselves or the people who made them, but the ideas behind them worry me. Adoption is pegged as a second choice, something people only turn to when they discover they’re infertile or when they don’t have a partner with whom they can reproduce.

This isn’t to speak ill of people who adopt for those reasons — they’re perfectly good reasons, after all — but the cultural undertone that adopted children are a consolation prize makes me ache.

I want to adopt because one day, a person will be in a situation they weren’t ready for. For whatever reason, they’ll decide to have the baby anyway. That child will need a family. It will need parents who want it more than anything in the world, and the chips will fall in a way that lands that baby in my arms.

Read the Full Article: http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/1123325/adoption-not-a-backup-plan