Adoption And Attitude 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

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

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

DaShanne Stokes

Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.

Jody Cantrell Dyer

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

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

DaShanne Stokes

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

DaShanne Stokes

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.