A bonus in raising a child you don't have a biological tie to is you will never saddle them with watching their every move and declaring their musical talent as "that's from your dad's side".
Nia VardalosTags: adoption
Some adventures should never be repeated.
Mike L. HopperTags: pain adventure risk danger adoption
Even though you weren't born to us, you grew in our hearts. We will be forever connected because love is what makes a family.
Deanna KahlerTags: adoption domestic-adoption
I love Russia because Russia gave me you.
John M. SimmonsOrphanages are the only places that ever left me feeling empty and full at the same time.
John M. SimmonsTags: adoption orphans orphanage
Meeting your adoptive baby is like being set up on a blind date with someone you will have to spend the next eighteen years with. You care about looks, because you desperately want to fall in love with the stranger who will be your child.
Jana WolffTags: adoption
By adopting, I was not a full-fledged mother in their eyes. I hadn't paid the price of pregnancy, hadn't earned the badge of labor or the award for delivery, and would forever be an outside --an associate member at best. I looked like the other women, but I felt like less of one.
Jana WolffTags: adoption
I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friendship, a complex connection.
Jana WolffTags: adoption
YOU AND YOU ALONE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN HAPPINESS, NOT ANYONE ELSE
Sondra A. TorresTags: inspirational family autobiography adoption fetal-alcohol-syndrome
I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be self-destructive...
I had no idea that you could like your parents or that they could love you enough to let you be yourself.
Tags: love parents finding-yourself adoption jeanette-winterson
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