Adoption Quote by Colleen Hoover

“It’s such a relief to know these are universal truths for so many of us in the adoption triad. Gosh, how much easier things…

— Paula Gruben

“My aim is to sort the jumble of information we throw at these children and present it in such a way that they will…

— Adele Devine

“out of arrogance, of laziness, or the shallow notion that modern, freethinking parents ought to allow children to decide these things for themselves, we’d…

— Brian Gresko

“...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in…

— Robert Whitaker

“Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory:…

— Kate Samperi

“My life has been shaped by the decision two people made over 24 years ago. They decided to adopt a child. They got me,…

— Karen Fowler

“I went into motherhood with some pretty romantic notions about what being a mom would be like. I certainly thought that raising kids would…

— Debra Sansing Woods

“When my relationship failed due to her secret affairs, I struggled with how my abandonment of the child would affect their future childhood development…

— Steven Magee

I had a brief period of questioning whether I should perhaps adopt a child. And my New Yorker editor, Henry Finder, was horrified by…

— Jonathan Franzen

“A good idea is an orphan without effective communication.”

— Andrew Hunt

“One unforeseen advantage of having a  child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend…

— Catherine Sanderson

“What a burden it is to have an intelligent daughter. It goes against nature for wit to be bound up in so much beauty.”

— Anthony Ryan