Foster Friess Quotes

Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim.

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.

For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy.

When I ride the subway back and forth, sometimes I look at the other passengers and wonder if any of them are children who have been adopted or parents who have adopted.

I'm not adopting a baby.

The adoption process was not an easy one. The paperwork took nine months. It's a full-time thing!

You are under great scrutiny when you are adopting, more so than natural parents. There are a lot of interviews, screenings etc.

I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.

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

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'.

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.

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.

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.

I'd like to adopt an older child, maybe 5 years old.

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 say to everybody, 'Adoption is not for the faint of heart.'

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.

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.

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

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