531 Quotes About Adoption

Diese Treffen mit meiner leiblichen Familie gaben mir seltsamerweise zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben das Gefühl, dass tatsächlich irgendwie alles in Ordnung war. Familie ist wichtig, und ich hatte meine zurück […]Zu wissen, woher ich kam, meinen biologischen Ursprung zu kennen, erlaubte mir, auf überraschende Weise Dinge an mir selbst zu sehen und zu akzeptieren.

Indeed for all of us who are believers, our present circumstances and futures aren't defined by our pasts. Our identities are found in Christ alone. As believers in Christ, we were adopted into God's family. Adoption. It's a beautiful thing.

I’ve made a New Year’s resolution - to find my birth mother. It’s not as though I felt I lacked anything growing up, but I need answers. Why did my birth mother give me up? I might be thirty years old, but the rejection still hurts; wasn’t I good enough?

In 2015, nearly one hundred Canadian, Dutch, Irish, German, and English citizens came to America to adopt black children. Whatever forms of othering may be going on in their countries, they are not infected with American anti-black bias that coursed from Virginia's legal codes in the seventeenth century through the supremacist regimes of later ages to the subconscious of far too many Americans in the twenty-first.

What many black and biracial transracial adoptees were not prepared for was that the societal realities they faced were the same as those facing other people of color. The information that white transracial adoptive parents needed to give their children did not exist in the white world; these parents would have to interact with black America in order to understand the problems most likely to trouble transracially adopted children.

The life an infertile person seeks comes to her not by accident and not by fate but by hard-fought choices. How to put together the portfolio of photographs. How to answer at the home study. What clinic or doctor or procedure. Donor egg or donor sperm or donor embryo. Open or closed adoption. What country, what boxes to check or uncheck. What questions to ask, and ask again. When to start and when to stop. What to say when her child says, Tell me my story.

Sometimes when life doesn't work out as you planned, there is a greater force at work.

It’s okay to call the pet you adopted a “rescue.” The kid you adopted… not so much.

According to my file, I was abandoned on the steps of the children’s home in Telbury with a birth certificate tucked inside the shawl. The certificate stated my name, date of birth, and place of birth—which was Aldabury Maternity Hospital—and my birth mother’s name and address. All I have is my first name and date and place of birth. Everything else regarding my birth mother on the certificate seems to be false.