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He's my father married to my sister. That makes me his son and his brother-in-law. That is such a moral transgression ... I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent. I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children. ~ Ronan Farrow
Adopted Children quotes by Ronan Farrow
A lot of times, the reason we struggle to feel and receive the love of God - to see ourselves as His beloved, adopted children - is because we're not pursuing in our everyday lives those things His Word describes as being valuable and significant. ~ Matt Chandler
Adopted Children quotes by Matt Chandler
By the late 20th century, the idea that parents can harm their children by abusing and neglecting them (which is true) grew into the idea that parents can mold their children's intelligence, personalities, social skills, and mental disorders (which is not). Why not? Consider the fact that children of immigrants end up with the accent, values, and norms of their peers, not of their parents. That tells us that children are socialized in their peer group rather than in their families: it takes a village to raise a child. And studies of adopted children have found that they end up with personalities and IQ scores that are correlated with those of their biological siblings but uncorrelated with those of their adopted siblings. That tells us that adult personality and intelligence are shaped by genes, and also by chance (since the correlations are far from perfect, even among identical twins), but are not shaped by parents, at least not by anything they do with all their children. ~ Steven Pinker
Adopted Children quotes by Steven Pinker
Time and experience have taught me a priceless lesson: Any child you take for your own becomes your own if you give of yourself to that child. I have born two children and had seven others by adoption, and they are all my children, equally beloved and precious. ~ Dale Evans
Adopted Children quotes by Dale Evans
It actually got me upset reading about adopted children. They become junkies or criminals or actors. I wanted to write a book from the children's point of view. ~ Michael Nyqvist
Adopted Children quotes by Michael Nyqvist
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. ~ Jodi Picoult
Adopted Children quotes by Jodi Picoult
What many black and biracial transracial adoptees were not prepared for was that the societal realities they faced were the same as those facing other people of color. The information that white transracial adoptive parents needed to give their children did not exist in the white world; these parents would have to interact with black America in order to understand the problems most likely to trouble transracially adopted children. ~ Rhonda M. Roorda
Adopted Children quotes by Rhonda M. Roorda
At first, I was shocked that Diane could even suggest this family reunion [on television], and then I realized this is just the way of the world, or at least the way of fin de siecle America. Not only would the next revolution be televised, but so would every other little stupid thing. It was already happening: Television reunions between adopted children and their birth parents ... ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Adopted Children quotes by Elizabeth Wurtzel
There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth. ~ Scott Simon
Adopted Children quotes by Scott Simon
And here's the other problem with consequences. Consequences work on the assumption that a child's core belief about herself is positive and therefore she will choose good things for herself. Many adopted children deep down see themselves as flawed humans who were given away because they were bad. A child who believes he's bad will expect more bad things to happen to him, and will often behave in a way that guarantees more bad things will happen. A child who has been hurt by loved ones will expect hurt from everyone else too. ~ Mary Ostyn
Adopted Children quotes by Mary Ostyn
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children ~ Paul R. Ehrlich
Adopted Children quotes by Paul R. Ehrlich
I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going. ~ Ronnie Spector
Adopted Children quotes by Ronnie Spector
The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted. ~ Anika Noni Rose
Adopted Children quotes by Anika Noni Rose
The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable ... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids. ~ Danielle Steel
Adopted Children quotes by Danielle Steel
Adopted children are self-invented because we have to be; there is an absence, a void, a question mark at the very beginning of our lives. A crucial part of our story is gone, and violently, like a bomb in the womb ~ Jeanette Winterson
Adopted Children quotes by Jeanette Winterson
For God, having given her power over his only-begotten and natural Son, also gave her power over his adopted children - not only in what concerns their body - which would be of little account - but also in what concerns their soul. ~ Louis De Montfort
Adopted Children quotes by Louis De Montfort
I looked up details about the human heart. They are all about the same size and beat approximately 100,000 times per day. It didn't say they beat faster or grew heavier for biological children than for adopted children. Love for a child weighs the same in any heart. ~ Karen Henry Clark
Adopted Children quotes by Karen Henry Clark
Robin Wood notes that 'When we have worked our way through all the other liberation movements, we may discover that children are the most oppressed section of the population' (1979a: 10), ~ Murray J.D. Leeder
Adopted Children quotes by Murray J.D. Leeder
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts. ~ Mark Hyman
Adopted Children quotes by Mark Hyman
I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that. ~ Toni Morrison
Adopted Children quotes by Toni Morrison
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this period, he was a bad man. Then he became good, abandoned his daughter, adopted correct principles and wrote bad poetry. ~ Bertrand Russell
Adopted Children quotes by Bertrand Russell
Many people, particularly children, have had poison ivy very often, very badly. They speak of it. They do not forget it. But there is an outer limit, a kind that passes any question of degree. Those who have utterly had it instantly recognize each other - like the Jews and homosexuals in Proust. It has no dignity whatever. There are no poison-ivy heroes…

There are other such cabals, reverse elites of outer limit, junkies, sufferers from migraines, the truly seasick, soldiers' fear in wartime, certain cramps.Many people suffer from cramps severely, turn quite silent, green, and shaky. Someone offers them a glass of gin. But there are cramps of an entirely other order, when even hardened doctors - knowing it is not important, only temporary, just a matter of hours - reach for the Demerol and the needle. It must be so in each lonely degrading thing from which one comes back having learned nothing whatever. There are no conclusions to be drawn from it. Lonely people see double entendres everywhere. ~ Renata Adler
Adopted Children quotes by Renata Adler
A man in health questions whether there is a God, and he also doubts whether it be a sin to have intercourse with a woman, who is at liberty to refuse ; but when he falls ill, or when his mistress is with child, she is discarded, and he believes in God. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
Adopted Children quotes by Jean De La Bruyere
I now see that is a woman's God-given role to tend to the home and take care of the children: it's just that the entire planet is our home, and every child on it is one of our children. ~ Marianne Williamson
Adopted Children quotes by Marianne Williamson
I scooped up the coins from the floor. "I'm taking these for the Chase Space," I told Alex, referring to our friend Magnus's shelter for homeless children. "Anonymous donation for the kiddos. ~ Rick Riordan
Adopted Children quotes by Rick Riordan
There's a source, there's a perennial source from which all things come forth. We call it the Godhead, Nirvana, the Tao, enlightenment. It's big; it's bright; it's perfect, as are all of its children, as are we. ~ Frederick Lenz
Adopted Children quotes by Frederick Lenz
Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true typically turn out to be those accustomed to being controlled - those who are not trusted, given explanations, encouraged to think for themselves, helped to develop and internalize good values, and so on. Control breeds the need for more control, which is used to justify the use of control. ~ Alfie Kohn
Adopted Children quotes by Alfie Kohn
You want to know something," he responded. "I know one woman and three small children who would think you're amazing if you just spent some time with them once in a while. You might not be anything to the world, but you were the world to them. Were," he repeated cruelly. "Not anymore. ~ Linda Kage
Adopted Children quotes by Linda Kage
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. ~ Kofi Annan
Adopted Children quotes by Kofi Annan
Stop. You can't love me because you're lonely, or because I am the only one who doesn't piss you off. I want to piss you off, I want to get on your fucking nerves. I don't want the responsibility of always being your rock. I will try, but I'm a mess, too. I lie, I sleep too much and I don't like children under the age of 6, really. I don't even know if I want kids because I'm selfish, and mothers can't be selfish once they decide to carry another life.
I'm always looking for the rain to come so I trip over my own feet. I know exactly what the air smells like before a storm.
Before you fall in love with me, I want you to know that I cry a lot because it feels good, and I masturbate at least 4 times a week, and you might fall out of love with me before either of us are ready for it.
I have no experience with this. I'm trying to be brave and smart but its almost impossible to be both at the same time.
You can't love me like a fire escape. Sometimes I will be the match, or the smoke under the door. I don't know what I'm doing, all I know is that we all catch fire sometimes, before we even get warm.
Before you fall in love with me, I want you to know that there's a 50% chance that this won't work, that one of us will wind up hating the other. I will try to keep your head above water, but sometimes I'll need help, too.
I can't be your savior, and I don't expect you to be mine. Just watch me unfold and I'll watch you unfold, too. We'll get drunk and tel ~ Caitlyn S.
Adopted Children quotes by Caitlyn S.
Learning first occurs as a part of emotional interactions; it involves the split-second initiatives that children take as they try to engage other people,interact with them communicate and reason with them. ~ Stanley Greenspan
Adopted Children quotes by Stanley Greenspan
Childhood's work is learning, and it is in his play ... that the child works at his job. ~ Caroline Pratt
Adopted Children quotes by Caroline Pratt
Meeting writers is usually disappointing, at best. Writers who write sexy thrillers aren't necessarily sexy or thrilling in person. Children's book writers might look more like accountants, or axe murderers for that matter. Horror writers are very rarely scary looking, although they are frequently good cooks. ~ Kelly Link
Adopted Children quotes by Kelly Link
We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children. ~ Robert Stack
Adopted Children quotes by Robert Stack
It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. ~ Betty Smith
Adopted Children quotes by Betty Smith
I can't imagine what it's like to go through life without shoes to protect your feet, and yet millions of kids do it. That's why TOMS is such an incredible company - it gives shoes to children who need them! ~ Amanda Hearst
Adopted Children quotes by Amanda Hearst
For me, all those systematic Bureaucracies of traditional schools jaded me. For me, I still couldn't understand why we have to have a factory style education for children living in the 21st century. Why hold them in place, asking them to read and repeat and giving them a number of tasks to finish? I still have no idea how exams and objective assessments could measure human behavior or intelligence. Is it some kind of barcoding human aptitude? Is it ethical anyway? ~ Neda Aria
Adopted Children quotes by Neda Aria
Do not make the mistake of assuming that because we're women we'll eventually want children. We aren't kangaroos - this internal pouch isn't one we all feel instinctively compelled to fill. ~ Sylvia D. Lucas
Adopted Children quotes by Sylvia D. Lucas
History
Coming too close
Is monstrous, like a doll
That is alive and bigger than the child
Who tries to hold it. ~ Babette Deutsch
Adopted Children quotes by Babette Deutsch
We came to the question: How is it with the women and children? I decided to find a clear solution here as well. I did not consider myself justified to exterminate the men – in other words, to kill them or have them killed – and allow the avengers of our sons and grandsons in the form of their children to grow up. The difficult decision had to be taken to make this people disappear from the earth. ~ Heinrich Himmler
Adopted Children quotes by Heinrich Himmler
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge. ~ John Locke
Adopted Children quotes by John Locke
The man of true greatness never loses his child's heart. ~ Mencius
Adopted Children quotes by Mencius
For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to make a living and for whom the bush is the most welcoming community, is a child lost forever for peace and development. I contest this view. For the sake of these children, it is essential to prove that another life is possible. ~ Ishmael Beah
Adopted Children quotes by Ishmael Beah
Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Adopted Children quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow. ~ Honore De Balzac
Adopted Children quotes by Honore De Balzac
There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature. ~ Maria Montessori
Adopted Children quotes by Maria Montessori
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical. ~ Alison Gopnik
Adopted Children quotes by Alison Gopnik
Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you
thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children. ~ Lyman Abbott
Adopted Children quotes by Lyman Abbott
Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again. ~ William, Saroyan
Adopted Children quotes by William, Saroyan
All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire. ~ Rumi
Adopted Children quotes by Rumi
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Adopted Children quotes by George Bernard Shaw
Read to your children all of the time
Novels and nursery rhymes
Autobiographies, even the newspaper
It doesn't mater; it's quality time
Because once upon a time
We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told
We need words to hold us and the world to behold us
For us to truly know our souls ~ Taylor Mali
Adopted Children quotes by Taylor Mali
In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years ... The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers. ~ John Adams
Adopted Children quotes by John Adams
One newcomer, asked why he had killed his wife and children, told the superintendent: I don't know why I am telling you all of this. It's none of your business As a matter of fact it was none of the judge's business either. It was a purely family affair. ~ Simon Winchester
Adopted Children quotes by Simon Winchester
When you raise children very well, you prepare them to be good men and good women in the future. Raising children is hard and challenging, but it worth all the efforts. When your children tire you, remember that they are the saplings of the future, these are the people who will repay you for taking care of them and will take care of their communities as well. ~ Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi
Adopted Children quotes by Noora Ahmed Alsuwaidi
In the end the boy had died one evening in his mother's arms, his limbs burning with fever, but then there was the funeral to pay for, and the other children who were born soon enough, and the newer, bigger house, and the good schools and tutors, and the fine shoes and the television, and the countless other ways he tried to console his wife and to keep her from crying in her sleep, and so when the doctor offered to pay him twice as much as he earned at the grammar school, he accepted. ~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Adopted Children quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri
I want every child that's born in the world to be planned and wanted. ~ Joycelyn Elders
Adopted Children quotes by Joycelyn Elders
[ ... ]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force. ~ Plato
Adopted Children quotes by Plato
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing line, see the tragedies, the despairing wives, the little children; let the solving of these problems become a part of their daily work, and even of their sleeping moments, and the most cynical will not wonder that we have accepted and encouraged this movement. We feel, after years of experience, that we have found nothing which has contributed more to the rehabilitation of these men than the altruistic movement now growing up among them. ~ William Duncan Silkworth
Adopted Children quotes by William Duncan Silkworth
I have heard it said that children are getting older. I think adults are getting younger. ~ Abigail Tarttelin
Adopted Children quotes by Abigail Tarttelin
Children should have a balanced diet. They should only consume sugar, salt, and fat in equal quantities. ~ Bauvard
Adopted Children quotes by Bauvard
When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing ~ Maria Montessori
Adopted Children quotes by Maria Montessori
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