"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."
"The life of an adoptee is like an ancient voyager who searches for the unknown. The stars guided their destiny. They had their sights on the wonders that lay ahead of them. An adoptee travels in the o..."
- Diamond Mike Watson
"I must acknowledge that though his adoption embodies graciousness, it is also a reminder this world is not as it should be. Brokenness permeates our world. Sure, beauty is born from ashes, but the ash..."
- Natalie Brenner
"Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free."
"The wrinkled pages of the Bible crackled as Mom leafed back to the beginning of Matthew. I had always felt I was conceived from the powers of the universe. Maybe I was chosen to fulfill a divine missi..."
"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."