Pony Express Quotes

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the Children and Family Services Division puts so much effort into finding permanent homes for the kids who are never going to be reunited with their birth parents.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.

There are far too many children in America in need of a loving home who are shuttled between temporary homes and group shelters that fail to provide the stable, nurturing environment all children deserve.

If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.

My dad worked for child protection.

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.

Child Protective Services, all over the country, need to be revamped top to bottom.

There are so many kids out there that need to be adopted and need good homes. I definitely want to have my own but I also want to adopt for sure. I think it's very important to find these kids homes.

My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.

We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.

I want to set up orphanages for underprivileged and abused children.

I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.

We need to ask questions about how we're going to give low-income kids who come from a broken home access to a loving home.

I was put in White City children's home when I was 15.

Angelina has a rule that she adopts children only when they are orphans.

If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they're not. They're not offering a solution.

I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

I've always wanted to adopt kids ever since I was 16 years old. I always said I'm going to adopt, I'm going to adopt. There's too many kids in the world that need love and attention, I can give it to them.

I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.

In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.

Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home for children. And I was seeing thousands of kids around the world that needed homes.

We must make children and families a national priority.