Able Quote by Jennifer Gilmore

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…

— Joan Didion

Adoption is an answer to a tragedy that has already happened, but may it never be the impetus for one that hasn’t.

— Jen Hatmaker

I'm a big proponent of open adoption, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid isn't…

— Kathleen Hanna

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

— Caroline Leavitt

I think open adoption is a great idea, because it allows a relationship between the birth mother and her child so that the kid…

— Kathleen Hanna

Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.

— Anonymous

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

— Jennifer Gilmore

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

— Mariska Hargitay

I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

— James Haven

A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers, the uncertainties…

— Nina Easton

I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about…

— Jennifer Gilmore

With adoption, there is a whole range of experiences, and a lot of it goes under the radar. There is too much icky stuff…

— Lesley Sharp