The stark differences between Mantosh and Saroo make it abundantly clear that adoption isn't a clear process for everyone, and everyone's experience is different. For Mantosh, he was caught between two families far more than Saroo was, given that ISSA spent so much time fighting with his parents. It’s suggested that sometimes, birth families can stand in the way of a person finding family elsewhere, whether that be through adoption or through finding a "chosen family" of friends.