If you are financially affluent, think of adopting a kid and raise him or her right next to your biological offspring. And let your love become the proof of your parenthood, instead of your DNA.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.
~ Dashanne Stokes
People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.
Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.
Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.
Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.
~ Jody Cantrell Dyer
Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.
What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are.
Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.
It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.
Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through.
~ Kelly Dibenedetto
If you invest your time, talent, and resources, orphans around the world can have much happier and healthier lives.
~ Beau Sides
Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.
If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?
