Mei-Ling Hopgood

“The experience of looking at parenthood through the eyes of parents in different cultures has opened my mind and challenged some of the beliefs and practices that I’d held pretty tightly. Hearing and seeing what others do differently made me rethink what I thought was right. Sometimes it reinforced what I thought, and sometimes it changed me completely.”
― Mei-Ling Hopgood, How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: And Other Adventures in Parenting

“Ultimately, I think people tend to forget that on a basic level our relationships with our adopted parents are normal parent-child relationships. The only difference is how we became parent and child.”
― Mei-Ling Hopgood, Lucky Girl: A Memoir