Adopt Quote by DaShanne Stokes

“Laws forbidding adoptees from accessing their original birth certificates are outdated and need to be changed today.”

— DaShanne Stokes

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

— DaShanne Stokes

“They will grow up knowing that they should be only proud about being adopted. I will consider it a parental failure if our daughters…

— Scott Simon

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

— Mariska Hargitay

A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties…

— Nina Easton

“I said to the social worker "Would you stop me from having a child of my own?" Of course, they wouldn't have been able…

— Caroline Overington

“The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not…

— Kathleen Silber

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

— Jen Hatmaker

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

— George W. Bush

“By adopting, I was not a full-fledged mother in their eyes. I hadn't paid the price of pregnancy, hadn't earned the badge of labor…

— Jana Wolff

“A change in paperwork [birth certificate] can't erase words stamped on the human heart.”

— Charles Martin

“Dating a wo/man with a child is adoption … without the paperwork.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana