Quotes from Melissa Fay Greene

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.

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 will tell 12 million bedtime stories....Who will wake in the night in response to 12 million nightmares....Well, as it turns out, no one. Or very few. There aren't enough adults to go around. There is No Me Without You

America wrestles with its obesity crisis to such an extent that Americans forget there are worse weight problems on earth than obesity.

Their parents may fill the children's hours with therapeutic equipment, tutors, drivers, therapists, psychiatrists, and special schools, while what a child wants and needs most desperately is a friend. Often a child longs for a friend despite rejecting everyone who reaches out. Such a child may be convinced to come out of hiding if the proffered playmate is a dog

Adoption is the appropriate response to only one situation: the need of a child for a new family, combined with a family's desire for a new child.

A funeral was a thing they understood; dissent was something they did not.