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

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 was adopted without the benefit of papers. They used to hide adoption in the forties; I don't know why. Perhaps it was shameful. I could have been kidnapped - there are all kinds of crazy things that people have done - but I got over dealing with that a long time ago.

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

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 always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.

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.

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.

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

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.