What do you think about adoption?

At dinner tonight, I asked my children a question.

"What do you think about adoption?"
I told them that I wasn't going to say what I thought, but that I really just wanted to know their honest feelings.

Here are some of their answers:

I think that adoption is good, but I don't understand why so many people only want little babies, and that they only want healthy babies.

I do not think an orphanage is good, because some people think that only healthy babies are good.

Adoption is good because children don't have to live on the street.

I think that someone should make orphanages nicer, because they're not very good environments.

If I adopted a child, I would adopt an older child, because when children get to be a certain age, they have to leave the orphanage, but babies have more time to be adopted.

I think that adoption is a union between nations.

I feel sad because even if one child who is needy is adopted, there are still like 500 more who are in the same situation.

I don't understand why more people don't adopt.

So, how about you?

What do you think about adoption?