Debatable Word Choice

Despite two recent films about adoption, a very sensitive subject, filmmakers and reviewers insensitively insult those who adopt or are adopted. In “A.I. Artificial Intelligence,” David hears that he is not the “real son” of his adoptive parents. In his review of “An American Rhapsody,” (“A Broken Childhood in ‘American Rhapsody,’ ” Aug. 10), Kenneth Turan refers to Suzanne’s birth parents as “natural parents,” as if to imply that adoption is an unnatural act.

Let the word go forth that the correct terminology is to distinguish birth parents from adoptive parents, birth children from adoptive children, and that there is nothing more natural and humane than for parents to adopt children and love them as very special.

MICHAEL HAAS

Los Angeles