Legal Guardianship Quotes

The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.

Our ancestors saw fit that females, by reason of levity of disposition, shall remain in guardianship, even when they have attained their majority

Adoption may take place whence one will; and the declaration shall be made in the market-place when the citizens are gathered. If there be no legitimate children, the adopted shall received all the property as for legitimates. If there be legitimate children, the adopted son shall receive with the males the adopted son shall have an equal share

The children’s mother has no legal right to a voice in deciding w whether they shall be nursed; how or where educated; what trade or profession they shall adopt; in what form of religion they shall be instructed… If the father wishes the child to be left unvaccinated, the mother cannot legally have it done.

When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me. ... and no one showed up.

Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.

Using kids as pawns in a divorce is awful.

No, I'm not adopting any children.

Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.

In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system.

Deities can actually own property in India, though the law treats them as minors, and they must be represented by an official guardian.

Nobody is going to take my kids away from me and I will fight to the death for that.

Woody Allen - legally, ethically, personally - was absolutely a father in our family.

I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

Many states favor joint custody.

If a man adopt a child and to his name as son, and rear him, this grown son can not be demanded back again.

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don’t belong to her, you know.” Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. “Well, children all have to belong to somebody,” he muttered. “Do you belong to someone?” “That’s different.” “Because you’re a grown-up?

My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me.

In my opinion, you don't get to have privacy when you're only 16!

I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.