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I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.

I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.

Even if your parents don't have Alzheimer's or aren't in a wheelchair, your parents get old - if you're lucky to have parents who live for a long time. It's a challenge, and it's difficult and lovely and touching and awful and ghastly and real.

I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn't have parents.

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

My parents were divorced when I was really young.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.