Quotes About Open Adoption

#1. I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't like, "Where did I come from?" And to have it be like, "Look, you have a bunch of people who love you."

Kathleen Hanna

#2. In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.

Dan Savage

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

Jennifer Gilmore

#4. Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

Caroline Leavitt

#5. 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.

Jennifer Gilmore

#6. 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.

Jennifer Gilmore

#7. 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.

Joan Didion

#8. Shall we all open our heart to be a forever home for lost pets.

Martha Steward

#9. I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views "should" be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences.

Sherrie Eldridge

#10. That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility.

Deborah A. Beasley

#11. Right," said Kami, undaunted. "So a girl in my class called Amber Green, and our headmistress, Ms. Dollard, are both sorcerers. Amber's with Rob, but we could use Ms. Dollard."

"I never trusted Amber," Angela remarked darkly. "Only the evil are that enthusiastic about volleyball.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#12. Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

#13. I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

#14. This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters.

Charles Schumer

#15. The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Oscar Wilde

#16. Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

A.R. Ammons

#17. With domestic adoption, you get a form, you fill it out, and there are these boxes: African-American, African-American and Hispanic, and you check the boxes that you're comfortable with. Race is completely open in that regard.

Jennifer Gilmore

#18. For a small, open economy like Cyprus, Euro adoption provides protection from international financial turmoil.

Jean-Claude Trichet

#19. Adoption is grief in reverse.

Jody Cantrell Dyer

#20. Love who you are and want you want to be.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. We state and commend the faith only in so far as we go out and put ourselves inside the doubts of the doubters, the questions of the questioners and the loneliness of those who have lost their way.

John R.W. Stott