Adopt Quotes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path.

James C. Dobson

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

DaShanne Stokes

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.

Israelmore Ayivor

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.

DaShanne Stokes

The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

Mokokoma Mokhonoana