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You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family.

Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

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

Tell me, who doesn't want to have a family to extend himself/herself?

Birth mothers choose life, and a family, for their child. But this choice is rarely celebrated. Women routinely face family, friends and even health-care providers who think that adoption equals abandonment, according to researchers and conversations with birth mothers.

Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.