“Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, "Adoption, not Abortion," although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.” Has BeensUseAbleAtheismFiguresMonthsBirthMethodPositive AtheismExpertsAbortionAdoptionAdoreSlogansBirth ControlCounselingCatchyAdore YouI Adore You Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES
“I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you." Not just the parents who are raising you on a day-to-day basis, but also to have contact with your birth mother and hopefully your birth father. So that you can be like, "Oh, they love me too, and they love me so much that they knew they couldn't take care of me but they're still in my life to some extent."” PeopleLooksChildrenStillsBigsCareKidsMotherFatherParentLove YouBirthBasesTake CareBunchContactHopefullyAdoptionDay To DayTake Care Of MeBirth MotherOpen Adoption Author:Kathleen Hanna
“When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family.” KnowsChildrenMotherFatherRaceBabyBirthDrugCrisisAgencyPregnantAdoptionHomosexualBirth Mother Author:Rosie O'Donnell
“But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the greater our reverence for the Pilgrim fathers. Between the drafting of their immortal charter of liberty in the cabin of the Mayflower and the fruition of their principles in the power and majesty of the republic of the United States of to-day is but a span in the records of the word, and yet it is the most important and beneficent chapter in history. To be able to claim descent from them, either by birth or adoption, is to glory in kinship with God's nobility.” KnowsImportantStatesAbleFatherUnitedLibertyPrinciplesUnited StatesStudyRecordsGreaterBirthGloryClaimsProfoundDeedsImmortalAdmirationRepublicReverenceChaptersAdoptionNobilityMajestyPilgrimDescentCharterKinshipCabinsFruitionDraftingMayflower Book:Club and society addresses Source: Club and society addresses
“The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed.” PeopleYearsMatterSeemsPowerfulBirthTiesMost PowerfulAdoption Author:Anthony Brandt
“I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you."” PeopleThinkingLooksChildrenIdeasKidsMotherLove YouBirthBunchAdoptionGreat IdeaBirth MotherOpen AdoptionBirth Parents Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.” PeopleIfsGivingChildrenMadeHandsSchoolLawMotherNightParentLosesBirthSickGive MeParentingDeedsI RealizedChosenWitnessLabelsYour ChildrenSatCriedAdoptionBeing A ParentLaw SchoolGiving BirthSchool GraduationBearing Witness Book:Handle with Care: A Novel Source: Handle with Care: A Novel