There are many children who need help, and anyone who wants to reach out and adopt a child from foster care or from a Russian orphanage should reach out and do it. — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
“But I believe we don't know folks, we're acquainted with them. There's always something in an individual you ain't never going to know.” — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
“Who was going to raise 12 million children? That was what I suddenly wanted to know....Who was teaching 12 million children how to swim.....Who… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
International adoption does not begin to solve the problems of the world's orphaned children. It's truly not the answer. At the same time, it… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true… — Melissa Fay Greene 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 from a… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
There's a culture in orphanages that children are eager to escape from, and it's a culture of being reared as a group and not… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
“So how does it happen that -- while most people instinctively try to save themselves and their families from a catastrophe -- a few… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
A Georgia peach, a real Georgia peach, a backyard great-grandmother's orchard peach, is as thickly furred as a sweater, and so fluent and sweet… — Melissa Fay Greene Copy Share Image
