Adoption Reunion Quotes

When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.

We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.

I was adopted. I was born in Edinburgh, and adopted when I was about two weeks old. And it's a good thing, I think, really, that back then, in '75 when I was born, you were really given a lot more information than you're given now when you're adopted. And you know, you can access that information when you're older.

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

I am an adoptive parent. My wife and I adopted our daughter nine years ago. She was born in China. We have been her parents since she was nine and a half months old, and we don't know very much about her life before we first took her into our arms.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

When I was younger, I thought every kid was adopted because that's all I've known. I have everything I need, so I never felt the need to have answers for what happened.

I've always known I was adopted.

When I ride the subway back and forth, sometimes I look at the other passengers and wonder if any of them are children who have been adopted or parents who have adopted.

I was adopted when I was a baby. My mother carried me for nine months and she held me for one hour, and didn't see me again.

I am adopted, and I am so grateful for my story, and that's what makes me who I am.

When I was 6, I learned where I came from, which was one step removed from the usual circumstances. I was adopted.

I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.

I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my story, really. My mother won't tell me. She won't tell me who my father is. She won't tell me the story of my birth.

I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.

I want adopted people to know they were chosen.

Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.