Adoption Laws Quotes

The best public policy is to encourage fewer abortions through strong adoption laws and sending a clear abstinence message to our children.

We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.

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

We have looked into the general problems with adoption in the United States, and we discovered - on the basis of the reports written by American NGOs - we discovered that not only Russians but kids from other countries and the American-born kids have been subject to very unfortunate behavior on the part of their adopted parents.

The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

I was adopted. I was born in Edinburgh, and adopted when I was about two weeks old. And it's a good thing, I think, really, that back then, in '75 when I was born, you were really given a lot more information than you're given now when you're adopted. And you know, you can access that information when you're older.

There's a lot of people in my family who've adopted children.

A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws.

I'd like to adopt an older child, maybe 5 years old.

It wasn't easy to adopt an American child. Actually it's quite simple, but finding out how to do it was the hard part.

Adoption is a global issue these days - it's certainly current - and it's encouraging for a lot of couples whether they're straight or gay.

If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.

I'd adopt an older child, not a baby.

If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?

For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.

In New Jersey, judges have ruled that a same-sex couple or a single person applying to adopt must be given the same place in line as a married man and woman. I think that's bad for kids. This makes me homophobic? I'm in show business. Half the people in my life are gay.

I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said to me, based on not your morality, not on how good you are as a mother, not on how much you've given to foster kids in Florida, based on the facts that you're in love with a woman, you can't keep her.

Mum and Dad had waited 16 years for adoption laws to change in their home state, Tasmania, so that they could apply to the authorities to create the family of their dreams. I am so thankful for their endurance and patience. Who knows what would have happened to me if they hadn't miraculously appeared when I needed them most?

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.

Gay individuals should be able to adopt.

I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

I want to have and adopt. I always have; ever since I was 18, I wanted a baby, and I wanted to have and adopt because there are a lot of kids. I want to adopt an American baby though, you know what I mean, no offense. Just because there are so many kids here that need our help.

You are under great scrutiny when you are adopting, more so than natural parents. There are a lot of interviews, screenings etc.