Michael Franti Quotes

I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy.

I'm not adopting a baby.

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

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.

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.

When I ride the subway back and forth, sometimes I look at the other passengers and wonder if any of them are children who have been adopted or parents who have adopted.

I speak about family and adoption because it 100% changed my life and who I am. It definitely played a very large role into just learning how to be grateful for what you have and being fulfilled in a way that a lot of adopted kids don't feel.

When I was 6, I learned where I came from, which was one step removed from the usual circumstances. I was adopted.

When I was younger, I thought every kid was adopted because that's all I've known. I have everything I need, so I never felt the need to have answers for what happened.

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.

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'.

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.

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

I've always known I was adopted.

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

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

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

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

I want adopted people to know they were chosen.

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

Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt. It never meant that I didn't want to have my own children - I always felt that if I were in the right circumstances then I would totally have my own children.

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

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