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.
Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.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.
Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.
our country is poor but our hearts are rich
~ Adele Rickerby
What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.
~ Steve Pemberton
Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.
~ 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
I love them both as though I birthed them both, but also as though I adopted them both.
~ Natalie Brenner
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?
