“Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of ‘best interest of the child’ is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent’s fundamental rights….”

It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a ‘better’ decision.

To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the ‘best family.’

You can keep ‘consumer’ DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.

Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids – because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That’s flexibility.

I think my mom threatened to put me up for adoption a few times.