George Pelecanos Quotes

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.

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.

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

No, I'm not adopting any children.

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids.

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

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'.

I could see myself adopting a kid someday. But, obviously, I'd prefer it to be aborted.

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.

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.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.

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.

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

I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them.

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.

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