Why say in the news that a child is adopted?

I do not understand why KCRG-TV9 and The Gazette news agencies must say a child is an “adopted child” when something bad happens to them? What is next, telling the race of the child? Would that matter?

They are children and that is all that matters. It makes no difference that these children are adopted or biological and should not be added as a label when something terrible happens to them.

The recent death of a 4-year-old is a good example - the reports said “in the death of her 4-year-old adopted son.” Once the child's adoption is finalized, the legal records are sealed and they are a family just like one with biological children.

Please stop using this term as it is completely irrelevant to the story. Adopting a child was the best thing that ever happened to my “family.”

Doug Yates

Monticello