Dna Testing Quotes

“DNA testing poses questions that people in the adoptee community have thought about far longer than such testing has been around. Will my birth mother/father/half-sister be happy to know me? And more broadly, what is that person to me? What do we mean when we speak of 'family'? How much does genetics get to tell us about who we are?”
― Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are

“Like the tapestry, God has intentionally placed each of us in our exact spot to make His world just how he needs it to be.”
― Wendy Batchelder, Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree

“Linda would say that she was so excited to have half-sisters that she didn't fully appreciate how her story posted a fundamental threat to their story.”
― Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are

“Seeking out genetic information... may allow adult adoptees, who had no choice in whether to be adopted, or by whom, to exercise their autonomy in making meaning out of it.”
― Libby Copeland, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are

“I think the unsaid truth about adoption for most is that it wasn’t the first choice. It’s hard for me to type these words and put them on this page because I know they hurt.”
― Wendy Batchelder, Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree

“A letter from my grandmother. A woman I had never thought about. I couldn’t get any of my thoughts to make sense . . . no questions would come together. I felt paralyzed.”
― Wendy Batchelder, Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree

“I’d found my birth family.”
― Wendy Batchelder, Finding Family: How Deeply Rooted Faith Grew Our Family Tree

“She can't help. No one can. I rest my head in my hands and let the flood of hot angry tears fall. I can't even begin to wrap my head around the enormity of it all. She lied to me, probably lied to my dad too.
The hole in my heart doubles in size like I'm losing him all over again.....Although it seems he was never mine to lose.”
― Alison Hammer, Little Pieces of Me

“But I'll tell you right now, when the blood inside of a stranger is inside you, you want to know who he is.”
― Danna Smith, The Complete Book of Aspen

“But I'll tell you right now, when the blood inside a stranger is inside you, you want to know who he is.”
― Danna Smith, The Complete Book of Aspen

“Genes are born knowing. Some of us have to learn the hard way.”
― Danna Smith, The Complete Book of Aspen

“For the very lucky, a DNA sequence might tell a story of the future. It was better than science fiction.”
― J.J. Brown, Mosquito Song: Dreams in Old San Juan

“I wasn’t asking to be admitted to the family. Or was I? I wasn’t kin and he didn’t owe me anything. Or did he? The questions were not just about myself but about all people who are, to a greater or lesser extent, shaky arrivals, showing up unannounced, trying to migrate into a kind of safety or homecoming. Some of us stood outside the door campaigning for admittance, and some of us were thinking It’s a minuscule country, for God’s sake, how many more can we fit? And every one of us was related.”
― Kyo Maclear, Unearthing

“Good genes” and “bad genes” are a kind of myth. What genes are – and what they are not – are often obscured by a lack of accurate information. They’re very, very small, but genes are physical things. Genes don’t have a soul, any more than a single cell does, or a hand, foot or eyeball does.”
― Jennifer J. Brown, When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes

“The time to change the narrative around newborn screening for genetic health conditions has come. “Different” doesn’t mean “inferior” or diseased. With stories of real lived experiences, parents, advocates and clinicians can revise the story with acceptance and hope.”
― Jennifer J. Brown, When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes