{"quotes":[{"text":"If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["adopt","adopted","adopted-kids","adoptee","adoptee-rights","adoptees","adopting","adopting-a-child","adoption","adoption-and-attitude","adoption-day","adoption-industry","adoption-reunions","adoption-search","adoption-story","adoption-system","civil-rights","national-adoption-day","national-adoption-month","original-birth-certificate","rights"],"id":38407,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["adopt","adoptee","adoptees","adoption","adoption-and-attitude","adoption-day","adoption-month","adoption-search","adoption-story","change","change","discover","discover-yourself","discoveries","discovery","discovery-of-oneself","identity","identity-confusion","identity-crisis","identity-politics","identity","national-adoption-day","national-adoption-month","who-we-are"],"id":41086,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"But Nita had always seen having a child as selfish. Why bring another soul into this world, she'd say, when there are so many out there that need our help?","author":"Ramez Naam","tags":["adopt","adopted","adopted-kids","adoption","breeding","child","children","offspring","parent","parenthood","parenting","parents","selfish"],"id":49747,"author_id":"Ramez+Naam"},{"text":"To be healthy in modern society, you must adopt the behaviors of an astronaut!","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["adopt","astronaut","astronauts","behavior","behavioral-change","behavioral-psychology","behaviour","behavioural-psychology","healthy","healthy-habits","healthy-lifestyle","healthy-living","modern","modern-life","modern-society","modern-times","modern-world"],"id":51361,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["abort","abortion","absent-father","absent-fathers","absent-mother","absent-mothers","adopt","adoption","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","brother","brothers","care","child","children","funny","humor","humour","irresponsible","joke","jokes","kid","kids","nurture","offspring","parent","parenthood","raise","raising","rear","rearing","responsibilities","responsibility","responsible","satire","sibling","siblings","sister","sisters","stepchild","stepchildren","unplanned-pregnancies","unplanned-pregnancy","upbringing"],"id":68926,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"A role model is a person whose roles can be modelled. If the roles you conceive and give birth to today cannot be adopted by anyone in your absence, you are no good model.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["a-good-role-model","absence","adopt","adopted","adoption","conceive","copy","deliver","emulate","food-for-thought","give-birth","good-role-model","israelmore-ayivor","lead-by-eaxample","live-life-so-well","love-people","model","modelling","person","role","role-model","role-play","study","teach-others"],"id":86646,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Destiny is not always preordained. Life is about making choices. Our lives are the sum of all the choices we make, the bridges we cross, and the ones we burn. Our souls cast long shadows over many people, even after we are gone. Fate, luck, and providence are the consequence of our freedom of choice, not the determinants. When justice is served by following our principles, making good decisions brings us inner peace.","author":"Judith Land","tags":["adopt","adopted-child-syndrome","adoptees","adoption","adoption-detective","adoption-reunions","adoption-search","adoption-stories","adoptive-parents","birth-father","birth-mother","foster-child","genealogical-bewilderment","memoir","orphan","parental-alienation","selective-mutism","social-worker"],"id":197328,"author_id":"Judith+Land"},{"text":"Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["adopt","adopted","adopted-kids","adoptee","adoptee-rights","adoptees","adopting","adopting-a-child","adoption","adoption-and-attitude","adoption-day","adoption-industry","adoption-reunions","adoption-search","adoption-story","adoption-system","civil-rights","deception","lies","national-adoption-day","national-adoption-month","original-birth-certificate","rights"],"id":222413,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["adopt","attitude","david-hernandez","defeatist","he","his","in","obstacles","overcame","path","refused"],"id":260614,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["adopt","adopted","adopted-kids","adoptee","adoptee-rights","adoptees","adopting","adopting-a-child","adoption","adoption-and-attitude","adoption-day","adoption-reunions","adoption-search","adoption-story","civil-rights","civil-rights","human-rights","national-adoption-day","national-adoption-month","original-birth-certificate","rights","rights-of-a-child","social-problem","social-problems"],"id":266988,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}