Jennifer Gilmore Quotes

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'd adopt an older child, not a baby.

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

I've been involved in the offering-up-adoption-as-another-choice business for a long time.

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

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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