child placement Quotes

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

I'm drawn to kids that are already born. I think some people are meant to do certain things, and I believe I'm meant to find my children in the world somewhere and not necessarily have them genetically.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home, and the most to institutionalize him.

If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?

We are fighting abortion through adoption.

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.

I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.

Let me tell you what is interesting about the administration. We had Central American miners that were placed in Ohio, and we never knew a thing about it. We didn't know where they were. And, in fact, we know now that some of them, there is a case going on where some of them may have been human-trafficked.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

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

Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

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.

Perhaps the single most important thing for a child is to be with a loving, supportive family. And all things being equal, any child of any race should be placed with any qualified parents without restriction or special conditions.

I'm not proud of this, but I had a lot of misconceptions about American foster care. To me, foster care meant that a child would be placed with you, then taken away. I didn't want to go through all of that.

There are so many families around the country that can't have children. We can improve options so families can have children, can adopt more readily those children.

We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.