Legal Guardianship Quotes

The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.

Adoption may take place whence one will; and the declaration shall be made in the market-place when the citizens are gathered. If there be no legitimate children, the adopted shall received all the property as for legitimates. If there be legitimate children, the adopted son shall receive with the males the adopted son shall have an equal share

Our ancestors saw fit that females, by reason of levity of disposition, shall remain in guardianship, even when they have attained their majority

The children’s mother has no legal right to a voice in deciding w whether they shall be nursed; how or where educated; what trade or profession they shall adopt; in what form of religion they shall be instructed… If the father wishes the child to be left unvaccinated, the mother cannot legally have it done.

Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.

When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me. ... and no one showed up.

Using kids as pawns in a divorce is awful.

Woody Allen - legally, ethically, personally - was absolutely a father in our family.

No, I'm not adopting any children.

Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.

Deities can actually own property in India, though the law treats them as minors, and they must be represented by an official guardian.

If a man adopt a child and to his name as son, and rear him, this grown son can not be demanded back again.

In my opinion, you don't get to have privacy when you're only 16!

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me.

Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?” “That’s different.” “Because you’re a grown-up?

I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.

The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.

I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

Many states favor joint custody.

Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.