Jillian Michaels Quotes

There are times when the adoption process is exhausting and painful and makes you want to scream. But, I am told, so does childbirth.

Despite the reams of paperwork, obstacles worthy of a horse show, and a wait that can rival an elephant's gestation, adoption feels no different on the inside.

Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

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

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

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

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.

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.

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.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.

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

I'm not adopting a baby.

If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.

Adoption may take place whence one will; and the declaration shall be made in the market-place when the citizens are gathered. If there be no legitimate children, the adopted shall received all the property as for legitimates. If there be legitimate children, the adopted son shall receive with the males the adopted son shall have an equal share

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.

It was a sad process for me to become a mom, and a long process. I felt so embarrassed that I couldn't have a biological child.

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

I want my kids to understand that when family needs something, I'm there. And, on a different note, all three of my kids are adopted.

My adoption journey fully fuels my inspiration, my drive, what my vision of success is.

I've always wanted to adopt.

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

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