Craig Revel Horwood Quotes

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.

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

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

The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations.

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

We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.

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 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.

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

We have looked into the general problems with adoption in the United States, and we discovered - on the basis of the reports written by American NGOs - we discovered that not only Russians but kids from other countries and the American-born kids have been subject to very unfortunate behavior on the part of their adopted parents.

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

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

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.

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.

If I have kids, I'll adopt.

A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties for adoptive parents operating under a patchwork of state laws.

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

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.

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

I always knew I would adopt. Always.

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

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.

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

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