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“What matters most is not 'what' you are, but 'who' you are.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“People think that LGBTs adopting children will hurt them, but it's not being in loving homes that hurts children most.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Right. Seven years have passed with the Gaumonts, so that excuse of being 鈥榥ew鈥� isn鈥檛 going to work anymore.”
― Misba, The High Auction

“The life of an adoptee is like an ancient voyager who searches for the unknown. The stars guided their destiny. They had their sights on the wonders that lay ahead of them. An adoptee travels in the opposite direction.”
― Michael C. Watson, Adopted Like Me- Chosen to Search for a Birthmother

“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.”
― Kelly DiBenedetto, Adoption Is a Lifelong Journey

“Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“The wrinkled pages of the Bible crackled as Mom leafed back to the beginning of Matthew. I had always felt I was conceived from the powers of the universe. Maybe I was chosen to fulfill a divine mission.”
― Michael C. Watson, Adopted Like Me- Chosen to Search for a Birthmother

“If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?”
― DaShanne Stokes

“It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Sometimes the ending you wish for isn't what you dreamt, but it's perfect enough.”
― Ann Marie Frohoff

“Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“Being denied their original birth certificates isn't just a problem for adoptees. It's a social problem, requiring social change.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“I must acknowledge that though his adoption embodies graciousness, it is also a reminder this world is not as it should be. Brokenness permeates our world. Sure, beauty is born from ashes, but the ashes don't just magically disappear. Suffering and all that is wrong in this world still exists. This side of heaven, tragedy remains and the moments of her son becoming ours is a representation of joy and suffering deeply intertwined. Our son, the living proof and blessing that love is what makes a family, reminds us that adoption is born out of undeniable loss. Irrevocable loss of wholeness, of what was meant to be.
To only acknowledge the beauty without giving voice to the tragedy, is to detract from adoption. In diminishing the tragedy of adoption, I decrease my son's story, along with others a part of the adoption circle. I would be choosing to ignore a massive portion of who he is.”
― Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life

“Most Michigan residents can get a copy of their birth certificates within weeks by simply placing an order online.

But for Detroit native Rudy Owens, attempts to obtain his birth records took decades of legal battles.

Why? Because he is an adoptee.

Owens is the author of a new book You Don鈥檛 Know How Lucky You are: An Adoptee鈥檚 Journey Through the American Adoption Experience.

(From, Michigan Radio, Stateside, June 11, 2018)”
― Rudy Owens

“I've been waiting a long time for this. Hi ... I'm your Aunt Cassie.”
― Craig Harris, Memoirs of an Adoptee: One person's DNA discoveries, reflections and insights

“You鈥檙e Korean, Hara. Even though you grew up in America. Even though you speak English and not Korean. Even though you feel like you鈥檙e different when you open your mouth. You are Korean where it counts. Here.鈥� He draws a finger across the blue veins in my wrist. 鈥淭he same blood that flows in me flows in you. My ancestors are your ancestors. Where you were raised and who you were raised by doesn鈥檛 change that. If anything, your experience makes you all the more Korean because what is a Korean but someone who has experienced loss and still survived?”
― Jen Frederick, Heart and Seoul