Ronnie Musgrove Quotes

Orphans Preferred

We must work tirelessly to make sure that every boy and girl in America who is up for adoption has a family waiting to reach him or her...This is a season of miracles, and perhaps there is no greater miracle than finding a loving home for a child who needs one.

When you are abandoned by two parents as a baby - wow, that is something to live with.

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

In England, I met a couple who run a children's home. They were very kind and showed me many nice spots in England.

Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge.

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.

There are so many kids out there that need to be adopted and need good homes. I definitely want to have my own but I also want to adopt for sure. I think it's very important to find these kids homes.

The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.

The proper care and rearing of a child is integral to their development. It breaks my heart to know that some children's futures are being destroyed within their own homes.

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.

We live in a society today where these children can be wanted children. Even if you don't want to keep this child after you've had it, there's plenty of young couples out there, that want children.

I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.

Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

I've played a worrying number of orphans, children who have been abandoned or had something terrible happen to them.

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.

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

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

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.

I'll always have this thought of maybe adopting a child for the third one.

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.

My foster mother wanted to create a family home. For me, she had made a place that I felt I could always go back to, and that was what she was trying to do for these kids.

Anyone dying is not easy, but certainly not a mother. Me and my brother, we stuck together. The foster families were good to me, and then my nanny took me in.

I was put in White City children's home when I was 15.

All my foster homes were very good to me. But it's still not a very nice experience. It's only when you're older, you realise: we were on our own in there. As kids, you don't know what's happening. You're here. Then you're in the next house. But the families were all very good to us.