Rhea Perlman Quotes

Orphans Preferred

Every child deserves a home and love. Period.

I'm an orphan!" Constance cried gleefully. "I'm an orphan!" ~ The Prisoner's Dilemma

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and a father. I could not imagine my childhood without my mother. I also believe that it is cruel to take a baby away from its mother.

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.

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 ended up in Broadmeadows orphanage - I don't know how that happened - whether she gave me up for adoption or the church was responsible. Whatever happened, she was a single mum.

When are we going to make parenting a national priority?

I grew up in a family with three brothers and sisters who joined my family through the foster care program, and I also have a sister who joined my family through a faith-based organization.

My wife and I are foster parents.

The family court is extremely child focussed. Its overriding objective is to do what is in a child's best interests.

I have made the cause of children and families really my life's work.

Everyone's got to be for a child to have a home and love. I mean I don't know anyone who would be against that.

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

You help families focus on the future through their children.

My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.

Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we're not forming enough families. And that is hurting our economic work, and it's hurting our economic projections, because the best place for a child is within a strong family unit.

William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.

I was a ward of the state, initially, and then in the foster care system for quite some time, even though I did live part-time with my aunt in Brooklyn.

I have six siblings but grew up an only child. I was adopted by my aunt and uncle.

Throughout my work with family and child support organizations, one thing that has stood out to me time and again is that getting early support for a child who is struggling to cope is the best possible thing we can do to help our children as they grow up.

We need to ask questions about how we're going to give low-income kids who come from a broken home access to a loving home.

I'm adopted by my uncle and aunt, who I look to as my parents and people who really did everything they could to put me on the right path. I'm really grateful to them.