If you can help a child, you don't have to spend years repairing an adult. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them. — Leigh Anne Tuohy Copy Share Image
An aware parent loves all children he or she interacts with - for you are a caretaker for those moments in time. — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today. — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems. — Ruben Hinojosa Copy Share Image
“Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.” — Seth Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We have a very flawed system in this country. The resources, sadly, are not what we need and we have kids aging… — Leigh Anne Tuohy Copy Share Image
I've seen how transformational a child's first years of life can be, and strengthening the foster care system gives kids a better… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
I was a ward of the state, initially, and then in the foster care system for quite some time, even though I… — Rosie Perez Copy Share Image
My mother dropped us off at a foster care centre when I was just two. But my grandmother ended up fighting for… — Tori Bowie Copy Share Image
Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when… — Jason Gann Copy Share Image
More broadly, we are going to have to examine the safety net programs to make sure they are poised to catch the… — Richard Neal Copy Share Image
I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and… — Victor Ortiz Copy Share Image
I am extremely active in the foster care crisis in this country. Everything that I do is pretty much with the end… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
Even in New York City, we've seen some major improvements from the way the system was 20 years ago. There's still a… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
“A homeless man clarified this once: “You know? We’ve lost so many things: dignity, security, our marriages, our jobs. But one thing… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
While spay neuter is important, our goal has never been no more births, even though reducing birth rates might help. Our goal… — Nathan Winograd Copy Share Image
“We were always driven by a gray-haired man in the foster-care agency car. I remember leaving that abusive home, pulling out of… — Damien Black Copy Share Image
Becoming a mother is the best thing that has ever happened to me, I am happy to once again be a part… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge. Marcus, my husband and I sought… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
“Being adopted felt like reading a book that had the first chapter ripped out. You might be enjoying the plot and the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Sunny was a treat to read. It is most appealing as the story is very well done and the artwork is beautiful.… — Theresa Macinnis Schimmel Copy Share Image
“Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the… — Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Copy Share Image
“In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and daughter are already so deeply estranged at… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“The atmosphere inside was terrible. Brenda stared into the distance whenever I was around her and hardly spoke to me. Little Jim… — Tracie Daily Copy Share Image
“Sister, why do you do that?" "Do what?" "Cage the animals at night?" "Well..." She looked up and out through the barred… — Jennings Michael Burch Copy Share Image
“The love of a foster mother for her charge appears absolutely irrational.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so… — Deborah A. Beasley Copy Share Image
There are many children who need help, and anyone who wants to reach out and adopt a child from foster care or… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
“I journeyed alone for almost ten years before I found home. Adoptions are like very delicate gardening with transplants and grafts. Mine… — Ashley Rhodes-Courter Copy Share Image
