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My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she was 2 years old, almost 3. I always wanted to have a family. I had a good example because Melissa Hayden was a ballerina in our company, and she had two children and danced afterward, and Allegra Kent also did.

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.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

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

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

In the 1960s, 110 countries had averages of six or more children per family.

I've been wanting kids for 10 years. I'd love to adopt, have them naturally - all of it. I want, like, 15.

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

I think I can allow myself one child - and from then on, I think I would have to adopt. It makes sense not to add to the population problem.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.