Sentence examples for We adoptees from inspiring English sources

We adoptees are by turns curiosities, objects of derision and seemingly another species that some people just do not comprehend.

This conundrum is difficult to reconcile, and we adoptees often have to do it internally and alone.

But we adoptees didn't sign those adoption papers – we had no choice as to whether we wanted to go on an education program, let alone be adopted.

Amanda Transue-Woolston, founder of PAR, who has worked on this legislation for six years says, "If our General Assembly isn't willing at this time to pass a bill that's fair to all adoptees, we will switch our focus to providing education rather than trying to pass legislation.

We excluded 272 adoptees born before 1917, 812 non-traceable adoptees, and 142 who were transferred to the adoptive family after the adoptee turned 7 years.

Adoptees often use the term "we" when referring to the international adoptee community.

"Although we get requests from adoptees to help them find their birth parents, our volunteers are not supposed to do look-ups on live people," Mrs. Schneider said.

Here we see black male adoptees perform the cool pose.

However, we knew several adult adoptees and read a lot and attended support groups.

How the mishmash identity we piece together as adoptees can make locating a sense of belonging in the world a struggle.

In fact, we are cast in binary terms such as the 'angry adoptee' or we're anti-adoption or we do not love our adoptive family and so on.