“‘We have a 3-year-old boy. His mother is homeless. No one will take him.’ Our jaws fell open.”
- Love What Matters
- Family
- Adoption/Foster Care
“‘We have a 3-year-old boy. His mother is homeless. No one will take him.’ Our jaws fell open.”
“‘Her own family didn’t even want her,’ the judge told me solemnly, ‘She’s probably not going to live. Why would you even bother? Why do you care so much?’ I looked right back at her and said, ‘Because her life matters.'”
“My heart nearly exploded. I started to cry and said, ‘Lets do it!’ I vowed to step up and parent a little boy, but truth is, he taught me more then I could ever teach him.”
“This is not a political issue. It’s personal. You see, I have three Ahmauds who sleep under my roof every night.”
“You cannot deny a child an education based upon his nationality.”
“We became an official family, but he was my son the moment he walked through my door.”
“God took a single atheist woman in a cramped apartment with no desire to have children and made a mommy. Jack is the answer to a prayer I didn’t even know I was praying.”
“I have my fair share of stares out in public. People ask, ‘Are you babysitting?’ My response is, ‘No, they’re mine.’ Love is love no matter what color you are.”
“I was shocked. My heart was beating out of my chest. I hadn’t seen these faces since I was 16, leaving the hospital.”
“We’ve gotten: ‘Why didn’t you adopt a black child when so many black children need good homes?’ ‘You stole that baby!’ ‘Why didn’t you let that baby stay with his kind?’ Not once in my mind or in my heart did I feel as if Princeton didn’t belong to me.”