James Haven Quotes

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

I remember my mum explaining to me what adoption meant when I was still at primary school. 'Son,' she said to me, 'you didn't grow under my heart, you grew in it'.

Before I met my husband, I was just about to look into adoption.

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

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.

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

You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.

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

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.

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.

So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.

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

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

Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.

Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.

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.

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.

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted.

No, I'm not adopting any children.

For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

I say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

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

If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.