Parental Rights Quotes (3 quotes)

“No one 'just adopts'.”
― Jody Cantrell Dyer, The Eye of Adoption: The True Story of My Turbulent Wait for a Baby

tags: adoption, adoption-infertility, agency-adoption, birth-father, birth-mother, birth-parents, cost-of-adoption, difficulty, domestic, domestic-adoption, expense, extended-family, fertility, grandparents, grief, hospital, infertility, international, international-adoption, lawyers, medical, miscarriage, odds, open-adoption, paperwork, parental-rights, social-worker, spiritual-growth, termination-of-rights

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“Don't mistake my politeness for weakness. Despite your wealth, you are not more important than I am, and you don't have more rights to decent treatment than I do. You know what I'm here to tell you and you must be able to figure out that it's not easy. But you are this baby's blood family, which entitles me to invite you into his life or not. It doesn't entitle you to bully me.”
― Beth Harbison, The Cookbook Club: A Novel of Food and Friendship

tags: parental-rights, pregnancy, standing-up-for-yourself

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“For hundreds of years, parental rights were considered inviolate—in the name of discipline, parents could do just about anything to their children, short of killing them.”
― Susan Forward, Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life

tags: child-abuse, parental-rights, parents-quotes

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