Adopted Quote by will.i.am

I never met my father. He left before I was born.

— apl.de.ap

After moving to America at 19, I met my husband and raised our family in Southern California.

— Michelle Steel

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

— Anthony Foxx

My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.

— Michele Lee

I grew up with my mom, and my mom had six kids, and I was the youngest, but I had a different father than…

— Keiynan Lonsdale

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I…

— Harry Frankfurt

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

— Betty Hill

I was born and raised in the south side of Stockton, California, to a mother still in high school and a father in a…

— Michael Tubbs

I'm adopted, and I met my birth mom right when I was about to move to New York. I was 17 when I met…

— Mike Faist

I was born and raised in Los Angeles.

— Erik Griffin

I have six siblings but grew up an only child. I was adopted by my aunt and uncle.

— Rocky Carroll

I'm a first-generation American. My mother is from Argentina. My father is from Italy. When my dad was around five or six, his family…

— Diana Taurasi