Pat Robertson Quotes

I do want to have a family at some point. I also want to adopt. I don't feel pressure to have kids because I know that there are so many out there.

I've wanted to adopt since I was eight, nine years old. I really do think I will.

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind.

Parenting classes should be mandatory, whether you are adopting or not, and would include an evaluation of your current physical, mental and financial state as well as how ready you are to take on the rigors of parenthood. Our children are our most precious natural resource, and there is absolutely no other way to parent but to put them first.

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

Absolutely. It's something I'd eventually love. In the meantime, I just borrow all my friends' kids. It's seriously the best birth control in the world. I'm so tired afterward, I'm like, Okay, maybe in another two years.

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

I'd like another child, and maybe if it doesn't work out, I'll adopt.

I'm not opposed to adoption. It's not in my immediate future because I'm on the move a lot and if I were going to be father I would like to be more grounded.

I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

I don't want to have another baby, but my little sister is adopted, and I was hoping that one day I could do that...There are so many possibilities.

Our daughter was not damaged or hurt in any way. She was simply relinquished to foster care by two people who were not ready to be parents. I admire them for giving her the chance for a better life. And I am grateful they gave my husband and me the opportunity to be parents.

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

My first son Tony was born when I was only eighteen. I was a still a kid; I wasn't ready to be a dad, so he was put up for adoption and went off to live with a family that could care for him.

It's relatively easy to adopt kids if you're not trying to get kids that look exactly like you.

I can't wait to have kids. I want so many. I want to adopt and have my own.

I want adopted people to know they were chosen.

Being a mother adds an enormous amount of stress to your life. You need to make sure you're there for everything.

I've been wanting kids for 10 years. I'd love to adopt, have them naturally - all of it. I want, like, 15.

I had a brief period of questioning whether I should perhaps adopt a child. And my New Yorker editor, Henry Finder, was horrified by the notion.