“Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.” LoveInspirationalLooksCareFamilyParentingUnconditional LoveAdoptionRaising ChildrenOrphanFamily LoveAdoptingMatchingFoster CareFostering Author:Leigh Anne Tuohy
“If you can help a child, you don't have to spend years repairing an adult.” IfsYearsChildrenHelpingCareAdultsFoster CareRepairing Author:Joyce Meyer
“While spay neuter is important, our goal has never been no more births, even though reducing birth rates might help. Our goal has been and is, and has always been no more killing. And when you focus on the no more killing part, spay neuter actually takes a backseat to all those other programs like foster care, and adoptions, and helping people overcome the challenges they face that cause them to surrender their animals.” PeopleHas BeensImportantHelpingMightCareFacesCausesGoalChallengesAnimalFocusBirthProgramOvercomingKillingRateSurrenderAdoptionHelping PeopleReducingFoster CareBackseatBirth Rate Author:Nathan Winograd
“I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.” MenTryingLittlesTwoBookCareKidsStruggleMiddleLittle KidMiddle AgedFoster Care Author:Christopher Darden
“Becoming a mother is the best thing that has ever happened to me, I am happy to once again be a part of National Adoption Day. We were matched with our daughter through the U.S. foster care system, and my goal is to share information about the more than 120,000 foster care children in this country who are waiting for a family.” ChildrenCountryCareMotherWaitingGoalHappenedShareInformationBecomingDaughterBest ThingsAdoptionOur DaughterMatchedFoster CareBecoming A Mother Author:Nia Vardalos
“We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.” CareJusticeNumbersRecordsGenerationsYouthProducePrisonHomelessThis GenerationJuvenileRunawayFoster CareJuvenile Justice Author:Ruben Hinojosa
“As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed to keep him safe, and our failure contributed to who he was as an adult. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to kill him, what if we spent that money on other foster children so that we stop producing men like Massie in the first place?” IfsMenFirstsChildrenCareMillionsSafeAdultsAbuseDollarsSpendingWhat IfNeglectExecutionLaw EnforcementFoster ChildrenFoster Care Author:Jeanne Woodford
“Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.” ChildrenCareMotherParentBornInspiringEnvironmentRiskDevelopmentBecomingEducationalOutcomesCyclesTeensSupportiveMothers DayCognitiveFoster CareFoster Parent Author:Jane Fonda