Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.
We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.
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.
I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.
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.
I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids.
I can see myself adopting. I'm not in a rush to do it. I'm 39, I know, but I do love kids, and I'm very good - I've got a lot of really good moves.
For the past 25 years as an adoption attorney, I have witnessed the extraordinary courage and compassion of women - from age 14 to 40 - facing unplanned pregnancy. Not once did I believe that the government should interfere with their personal and private decision.
Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.
If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.
The last thing that should come between two willing parties, one that wants to adopt and one that wants to find a home, is economics.
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.
If you need a baby that bad, go down to the pound and get one. Not even a baby - go get an old man. There's unwanted people of all ages, pre-made and waiting for you.
It's relatively easy to adopt kids if you're not trying to get kids that look exactly like you.
I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt. It never meant that I didn't want to have my own children - I always felt that if I were in the right circumstances then I would totally have my own children.
I'd adopt an older child, not a baby.
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.
For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.
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 always knew I would adopt. Always.
I could see myself adopting a kid someday. But, obviously, I'd prefer it to be aborted.
I had a brief period of questioning whether I should perhaps adopt a child. And my New Yorker editor, Henry Finder, was horrified by the notion.
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 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.
I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.
