ADOPT-A-QUOTE - Bridging the Adoption Experience

ADOPT-A-QUOTE fills the gap left by greeting cards that don't apply to adoptees. It is a collection of feelings that apply to the adoption community ... slogans, poems, quotes ... mostly by those who have lived the adoption experience but also by famous civil rights activists, philosophers, poets, journalists, Supreme Court Justices, scholars and others who understand our issues. Because adoption has a language all of its own, "Adopt-A-Quote" was compiled to provide the adoption community ... and the non-adopted ... with a bridge to understanding and sharing.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION - 1
ADOPTEES - 3
ADOPTERS - 10
ADOPTION - 13
ADOPTION ACTIVISTS - 18
ANGER - 23
CENSORSHIP - 24
CHILDREN - 25
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE - 28
CONTRACTS - 28
DENIAL - 29
EXISTENCE - 29
FAMILY - 30
FATHERS - 30
FEAR - 31
FREEDOM - 32
GENEALOGY - 33
HAPPINESS - 33
IDENTITY - 34
ILLEGITIMATES - 35
JUSTICE - 37
MARRIAGE - 37
MOTHERS - 37
ORPHANS - 49
PARENTING - 49
PSYCHOLOGICAL - 49
RELATIONSHIPS - 51
RIGHT TO KNOW - 53
SEARCHING - 56
SECRECY - 58
SIBLINGS - 83
SUPPORT GROUPS - 64
SURROGATES - 65
TRUTH - 67
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - 68