Adoption Challenges Quotes

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

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

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.

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 want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.

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

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

My grandmother adopted me for a while, and I was bouncing around a bit. I was always helped by the PTA and church groups with food and Christmas presents. It's a hard cycle to break, because when you don't have the resources, it's almost impossible.

When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

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

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.

I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.

I've always been maternal and Russia was a country where it's possible to adopt infants - my English social worker told me not even to waste my time trying here.

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.

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

Under Islamic law, adoption is difficult.

A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple as her mother smoked cigarettes for a month, not knowing she was pregnant.

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

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

When I was in the group homes, I saw some of the kids being moved into foster homes with the potential for adoption. I remember well asking a social worker if I could find a home, too. I was told I was 'too old' and 'no one wants to adopt a 16-year-old.' I felt hopeless and alone.

For a new payment product, you always have to ask, how much better is it than the current solution? So when we started Paypal, for eBay micro merchants, it was much better than getting the 7 to 10 days process of cashing a check in the mail. When you look at stores or physical worlds, places, a lot of these places are already set up to take cash or credit card. Apple Pay may be an incremental improvement, maybe a little bit better. But when you have something that's pretty good and you go to something that's perfect, sometimes it's very hard to drive adoption because the delta is not that big.

We have so many kids in America to be adopted, but it's expensive. All these families that want children aren't able to because of the financial aspect, and that, to me, is just the most disgusting thing ever.