adopting

The missions were always changing- sometimes collecting jars of rain, paper bags of hiccups, adopting lost moonbeams and folding them into cake batter. Or perhaps investigating glittering slug trails left in the moonlight, finding the owners of abandoned buttons, or playing the sousaphone for caterpillars still in their cocoons.

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.

I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts_ I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself.

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

Spirituality is not adopting more beliefs and assumptions but uncovering the best in you.

If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

If you constantly allow negative statements into your life, you run the risk of adopting such negative statements as your convictions and principles. Generally, you will have a pessimistic outlook towards life.

It__ almost funny, isn__ it?___hat is?___ow some animals are worth more than others?___ell,_ he handed Konrad a sugar cube from a tin on the shelf. __t isn__ just the animal; it__ the type of animal.___olor, shape, size? If people pay for an animal based on what it looks like, what does that say about them?___t isn__ necessarily what they look like._ He frowned. __t__ about where they come from.___hat__ silly,_ she said.

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

Adoption isn't just a childhood experience, it's a life-long experience.

Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.