Foster Parenting Quotes

All anti-abortion protesters should be presented, on the spot, with an application to sign up as foster parents. They should also be given the names of children in their area in need of adoptive parents. And if they won't sign or volunteer, they should shut up.

No, I'm not adopting any children.

The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children

It takes a lot to become a foster parent.

I most definitely want kids, but I'll probably adopt kids.

My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.

A great foster parent can end the cycle of abuse and neglect, and impact not just the foster child's life, but also that child's future children's lives, the lives of people who would otherwise be victims of a lost foster child's crimes, and help end human trafficking and homelessness.

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

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.

I get letters from little girls begging me to adopt them.

My wife and I are foster parents.

With foster care, you have to remain unbiased, which is one of the huge challenges of it because you get to know the kids and if you care about the kids, it's really hard to present yourself as unbiased. But you're supposed to really be an unbiased party.

I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.

I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.

My husband and I vowed that after we married and settled down, we would become foster parents - a vow we kept and one that has enriched our lives greatly.

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.

I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said to me, based on not your morality, not on how good you are as a mother, not on how much you've given to foster kids in Florida, based on the facts that you're in love with a woman, you can't keep her.

As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.

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.

Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.

I was worried if you adopted a foster child, someone from the birth family could still come and take her back. I was afraid that any child in foster care might have suffered such trauma or neglect that she would be impossible to reach. I'm not proud of these fears. But I understand now when others ask me the same questions.

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 don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.