#adoption

We live in one world together. It's more important than ever to be friend to all. ↗

— Elizabeth Blake

#belonging #differences #identity #family

I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friendship, a complex connection. ↗

— Jana Wolff

#friendship

He's a unique dog, Mr. Bell had said. There is no other in the world that looks or acts just like him. ↗

— Martha McKiever

#dog-adoption #friends #inspirational #therapy-dogs #inspirational

What would my life, have been like, if I hadn't been put up for adoption? Who would my parents have been then? Or my parent, my mother? ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#life

I don't know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i'm just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real) ↗

— Tara Michener

#bullying #children-s-books #childrens-literature #self-esteem #literature-quotes

I've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else. ↗

— Joan Didion

#adoption #been #else #feels #i

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration. ↗

— John Edwards

#benefits #comes #couples #deserve #done

The only really serious love is maternal, like the only really serious doubt is internal. A son who has faith in both should go apply for adoption. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #love #faith

Adoption is a beautiful picture of redemption. It is the Gospel in my living room. ↗

— Katie J. Davis

#redemption #beauty

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

— Mariska Hargitay

#everybody #faint #heart #i #say