{"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":"What makes a family is neither the absence of tragedy nor the ability to hide from misfortune, but the courage to overcome it and, from that broken past, write a new beginning.","author":"Steve Pemberton","tags":["adoption","adoption-search","adoption-story","family","family","family-relationships","family-values","foster-care","foster-child","foster-children","foster-kid","foster-kids","identity","therapy"],"id":170315,"author_id":"Steve+Pemberton"},{"text":"I love them both as though I birthed them both, but also as though I adopted them both.","author":"Natalie Brenner","tags":["adoption","adoption-infertility","adoption-story","biological","birth"],"id":197628,"author_id":"Natalie+Brenner"},{"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"},{"text":"Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. 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