{"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":"Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.","author":"Jody Cantrell Dyer","tags":["adoption","adoption-and-attitude","adoption-infertility","amazon","birth-father","birth-mother","birth-parents","domestic-infant","expense","expensive","family","grief-inspirational-bereavement","infertility","kindle","miscarriage","newborn-adoption","open-adoption","open-mind","openness","paperwork","parenting","the-eye-of-adoption"],"id":46249,"author_id":"Jody+Cantrell+Dyer"},{"text":"If you invest your time, talent, and resources, orphans around the world can have much happier and healthier lives.","author":"Beau Sides","tags":["adoption-and-attitude","china","happiness","orphanages","orphans","orphans-in-china","resources","talent","time"],"id":64471,"author_id":"Beau+Sides"},{"text":"If you are financially affluent, think of adopting a kid and raise him or her right next to your biological offspring. And let your love become the proof of your parenthood, instead of your DNA.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["adopting","adopting-kids","adoption","adoption-and-attitude","humanity","parenthood","parenting","parenting-101","parenting-children","parents","serving-humanity","wisdom","wise-sayings","wise-words","words-of-wisdom"],"id":75160,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"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":"Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through.","author":"Kelly DiBenedetto","tags":["adopted","adopted-kids","adoptee","adoptees","adoption","adoption-and-attitude","adoption-story","adoptive-family","adoptive-parents","foster-care","foster-child","foster-children","mental-health","mental-health-professionals","nonfiction-self-help","self-care","self-care","self-care-self-awareness"],"id":230845,"author_id":"Kelly+DiBenedetto"},{"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"},{"text":"Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["adopted","adopted-kids","adoptee","adoptees","adoption","adoption-and-attitude","adoption-day","adoption-month","adoption-reunions","adoption-search","adoption-story","bloodlines","family","family-relationships","national-adoption-day","national-adoption-month","relationship","relationships"],"id":285593,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.","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","childhood","national-adoption-day","national-adoption-month"],"id":302287,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}