Quote

I want to say that, in general, when it works, open adoption is great.

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've never been keen on open adoption. It doesn't seem to solve the main problem with adoption, which is that somebody feels she was abandoned by someone else.

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

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

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.

Adoption should be an empowering option for young women in crisis, knowing that the people around them - family, friends, church - will respect their choice.

On gay adoption I have changed my mind.

If it gets to the point where I actually physically cannot have a child, there's plenty of children in the world that need a stable home and loving parent. I'm so down for adoption.