Top Adoption Quotes

Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

Adoption Definition

(n.) The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

(n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

(n.) The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.

Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.

If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?

Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.

One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.

Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.

Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.

Pull approaches differ significantly from push approaches in terms of how they organize and manage resources. Push approaches are typified by "programs" - tightly scripted specifications of activities...

A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are.

People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.

According to H.G. Wells, you either adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative. It is not necessary to change, after all survival is not mandatoryThis generation might seem arroga...

If you should choose to look at those files, you will have to live with the consequences of your choices while, at the same time, being mindful that these choices will not only effect you, but will al...

I took my menial life for granted until it became clear, why my early years resulted in a lack of adoption.- J.D. Stroube (Rival: Prelude to the Mirage Chronicles.)

You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit.

No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.